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Half of U.S. Doctors Plan to Cut Back Work Hours or Quit Medicine Entirely

Primary care doctors in the United States feel overworked and nearly half plan to either cut back on how many patients they see or quit medicine entirely, according to a survey by the Physicians' Foundation.

While 60 percent of 12,000 general practice physicians found they would not recommend medicine as a career, 76 percent of physicians said they are working at "full capacity" or are "overextended and overworked."

More than 90 percent said the time they devote to non-clinical paperwork has increased in the last three years and 63 percent said this has caused them to spend less time with each patient.

Eleven percent said they plan to retire and 13 percent said they plan to seek a job that removes them from active patient care. Twenty percent said they will cut back on patients seen and 10 percent plan to move to part-time work.

The survey adds to building evidence that not enough internal medicine or family practice doctors are trained or practicing in the United States, although there are plenty of specialist physicians.


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Posted On Nov 19, 2008
Eventually i hope they will all quit their flawed nonsensical "current practise", which focuses primarily on pushing unnecessary drugs and surgeries and integrate into something more meaningful like Natural Health practise instead....

Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.....

And keep the useless drugs on the shelf where it belongs for the makers and their buddies to ingest - may they have a long life, long enough to see the error of their ways............

 
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Posted On Nov 23, 2008

I agree seg...I just read that 60% of doctors take vitamins and supplements to control their own high cholesterol, blood pressure and other illnesses, but did not recommend their patients to do this. What a shame! Instead they toss a health/life threatening prescription at them.


Obviously they don't care enough about their patients health to help them take preventative measures...which would take the overload off them... but sadly, also take alot of money out of their pockets from the drug kickbacks they get. Wow...I guess I know what matters the most to them!


 
 
 
 
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