What Will Stop the Physician Exodus?
The 2016 Survey of America’s Physicians Practice Patterns & Perspectives, a biennial survey commissioned by The Physicians Foundation and conducted by Merritt Hawkins, looked at 17,236 physicians responses and found that:
- Almost half (47.8%) of physicians surveyed are considering a change in how they practice medicine within the next 1-3 years, including cutting back on hours, retiring, switching to cash/concierge practice, working locum tenens, seeking a nonclinical health care job, seeking employment, or working part time.
- Only 14% [of respondents] said that they have all the time that they need to provide the highest standards of care; 86% said that their time was either always limited, often limited, or sometimes limited,
Things do need to change. I offer up Direct Primary Care, if this is in your specialty. Email me if you need more information.
I am nearing retirement anyway. I will need to find a Medicare Provider. I was at a meeting with representatives of the state Medical Board. The representatives said that DPC will be considered illegal and reason for the State to fine the doctor. I have not heard of this since.
That’s crap
What state??
The “Direct Primary Care drop in the bucket” WAS “the bucket!” That’s the way medicine worked for decades before they shot a hole in the bucket. You saw patients in hospital, and in clinic. Nowadays, I have patients who were discharged from the hospital and died at home before they could follow up as an outpatient. (Hey, no re-admission penalty!)
I fear that the “Post-Obamacare Medicine” will just be intellectually driven by a network of corporations, Government experts and University toffs, just as it is now, but with a big ol’ “MADE IN THE USA” sticker. As we hire FMG’s from East Indonesia State. There will be:
1) DPC.
2) Nothing.
It will not stop and Direct Primary Care will only be a drop in the bucket.
Instead, your doctor will be an “Advanced Practice Provider” or “Physician Extender” who has seen far less Pathology and had less training.
Seeing a Physician in the office or hospital will be as antiquated as having one doctor who used to see you both in the hospital and in the office (remember them?).
Is everyone okay with that?