Becker's Healthcare January 6, 2026
Autonomy is a core issue for both independent and employed physicians as they navigate an increasingly complex, corporate and politicized healthcare system.
Here are five notes regarding how physicians feel about their level of autonomy in different practice settings and how those perceptions continue to shift and change.
1. Sixty-five percent of self-employed physicians said autonomy was very important to them in Medscape’s Self-Employed Physicians Report 2025, published Nov. 11. In Medscape’s Employed Physicians Report 2025, 48% of physicians said that diminished autonomy was the worst part of their job, demonstrating the value of autonomy for both independent and employed physicians.
2. Benjamin Levy III, MD, a gastroenterologist at University of Chicago Medicine, told Becker’s that preserving...
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