3 in 5 physicians would quit today if they could
By Jane Sarasohn-Kahn on 5 October 2012 in Doctors, Electronic health records, Financial health, Health Economics, Health IT, Health politics, Health reform, Health regulation, Physicians, PPACA, Primary care
Being a doctor isn’t a happy profession in 2012: 3 in 5 doctors say that, if they could, they’d retire this year. Over three-fourths of physicians are pessimistic about the future of their profession. 84% of doctors feel that the medical profession is in decline. And, over 1 in 3 doctors would choose a different professional if they had it all to do over again. The Physicians Foundation, a nonprofit organization that represents the interests of doctors, sent a survey to 630,000 physicians — every physician in the U.S. that’s registered with the AMA’s Physician Master File — in March-June