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pnwmom

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52. There actually is data.

Sun May 8, 2016, 09:08 PM

May 2016

http://www.centerforhealthjournalism.org/2014/03/10/whether-it’s-retire-or-flee-doctors-are-leaving-health-care

Apparently not. Deloitte’s 2013 survey of over 20,000 physicians notes 62% say that “it is likely that many physicians will retire earlier than planned in the next one to three years. This perception is fairly uniform among all physicians, irrespective of age, gender, or medical specialty.”

And if they’re not retiring outright, doctors say they believe physicians will “scale back practice hours (55 percent) based on how the future of medicine is changing.” None of this is surprising when Deloitte reports that “[s]ix in 10 physicians (57 percent) say that the practice of medicine is in jeopardy.”

Retirement may be more of a problem in safety net systems, and in certain types of specialties, like primary care, where both the workload and the reimbursement rates are worse than other fields of medicine. But fleeing from a field with very high burnout rates is not unique to physicians.

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