Poll of the Week – Are Your Colleagues Leaving Medical Practice?

Practice Notes blogger and endocrinologist Melissa Young recently wrote about a fellow physician in her area who is leaving medical practice. He’s not retiring; instead he’s taken a corporate job.

“He said that because of the way the healthcare system is now, he just can’t afford to keep his practice open,” wrote Young. “He is a solo practitioner in an internal medicine subspecialty. He said reimbursements are down and expenses are up. He said that primary-care physicians are being discouraged from referring patients to specialists. He does have college-bound kids and can’t afford to not have funds. So he has found himself a corporate job; five weeks vacation, paid benefits, normal office hours.”

She went on to write that it saddens her that the healthcare system is forcing out excellent physicians.
 

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