The Physicians Foundation surveyed 1,501 physicians from Sept. 28 to Oct. 7.
Here’s what surveyed physicians have experienced in the past year:
- Reduced staff: 29 percent
- A reduction in income: 28 percent
- An increase in income: 25 percent
- Reduced work hours: 21 percent
- New employment situations or practice: 19 percent
- Increased staff: 15 percent
- A Switch to a primarily telemedicine practice: 5 percent
- A move from a direct clinical role to a non-clinical role: 3 percent
- Retirement: 2 percent
- A move from a permanent practice to locum tenens: 2 percent
- Closure of practice: 1 percent
- Other: 1 percent
- None of the above: 17 percent
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