Hospitals and practices that invest in recruiting and training physicians can use noncompete clauses to prevent physicians from leaving their organizations before their contract is up.
Medscape conducted a poll of 558 physicians and found:
1. Ninety percent of respondents were bound by a noncompete clause in their contracts, or had been bound by one in the past.
2. Twenty-three percent of the respondents said they tried to negotiate out of a noncompete agreement but were not successful.
3. Thirty percent of respondents said they didn’t try to negotiate out of the noncompete agreement.
4. Among the physicians who left a job while under a noncompete agreement, 42 percent were able to work in a similar position outside the noncompete restrictions. Another 6 percent found a different type of work.
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