Leavitt Partners October 18, 2018
Today, Leavitt Partners released “Examining Pessimism Among Physicians: 2017 Survey on Physicians’ Outlook on the Practice of Medicine,” a white paper that investigates associations between certain physician characteristics and a pessimistic outlook on the practice of medicine.
The paper discusses findings from a national survey of 621 physicians. Leavitt Partners Health Intelligence Partners administered the survey through Qualtrics between June 2017 and July 2017.
The survey found that 38 percent of physicians reported having a pessimistic outlook. The authors found only a few correlations between physician characteristics and pessimism, which indicates that pessimism afflicts all types of physicians. Still, certain physicians were more likely to report a pessimistic outlook:
- Physicians who lacked confidence in the financial stability and administrative...
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