Becker's Healthcare March 7, 2025
Medscape’s “Striving for Balance in Your Specialty: Medscape Family Physician Mental Health & Well-Being Report 2025” found that family physicians need more support to find personal happiness and achieve work-life balance.
The report surveyed 5,741 physicians across more than 29 specialties between July 1 and Oct. 2, 2024.
Here are five things to know from the report:
1. Few family physicians felt that their personal lives have improved over the last three years. Only 24% of respondents said their overall happiness had improved in the last three years, while 40% said it stayed the same and 35% said it worsened.
2. About half...