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Survey: many primary care physicians are disgruntled.(Practice Trends)
About half of primary care physicians responding to a survey by The Physicians' Foundation said they plan to reduce the number of patients they see or stop practicing entirely over the next 3 years.
In addition, 94% said the time they devote to nonclinical paperwork in the last 3 years has increased, and 63% said that the same paperwork has caused them to spend less time per patient. Moreover, 78% said they believe there is a shortage of primary care doctors in the United States today, while the same percentage said medicine is either "no longer re warding" or "less rewarding."
The survey, which painted a grim picture of primary care physicians' satisfaction with their profession, was mailed to 270,000 primary care physicians and more than 50,000 specialists, and returned by 11,950 physicians.
"I have wanted to be a doctor since I was 4 years old," wrote one physician in response to the survey. "If anything, I spend too much ...
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