FOCUS ON: Physician morale Doctor disappointment
Following are responses from Texas (compared with all survey responses) to The Physicians Foundation’s 2016 Survey of America’s Physicians. Of 17,236 survey responses, 2,044 were from Texas physicians.
PROFESSIONAL MORALE AND FEELINGS ABOUT THE CURRENT STATE OF THE MEDICAL PROFESSION TEXAS
ALL
100% 50% 40% 30% 20% 10%
39.1% 32.1% 22.1% 8.6% POSITIVE VERY
SOMEWHAT POSITIVE
SOMEWHAT NEGATIVE
NEGATIVE VERY 6.7% POSITIVE VERY
SOMEWHAT POSITIVE
ALL
SOMEWHAT NEGATIVE
FEELINGS ABOUT THE FUTURE OF THE MEDICAL PROFESSION TEXAS
100% 50% 40% 30% 20% 10%
43.2% 25.6% 5.3% POSITIVE VERY
SOMEWHAT POSITIVE
SOMEWHAT NEGATIVE
TEXAS
100% 50% 40% 30% 20% 10%
32.4% 23.7% 10.4%
NO SUCH FEELINGS
14.4%
RARELY HAVE THESE FEELINGS
52%
Texas physician survey respondents who wouldn’t recommend medicine as a career to their children or other young people
70% 60% 50% 40% 30% 20% 10%
SOMETIMES HAVE THESE FEELINGS
OFTEN HAVE THESE FEELINGS
19.1% 10.7%
HAVE THESE FEELINGS
ALWAYS
NO SUCH FEELINGS
54.5% vs. 46.8% Texas physician survey
respondents who plan to accelerate their retirement vs. all survey respondents
IMPACT OF EHRS: Texas physicians who responded to the survey indicate electronic health records (EHRs) have:
38.8% 20.4% INCREASED/
IMPROVED THEIR QUALITY OF CARE
HAD LITTLE TO NO IMPACT ON THEIR QUALITY OF CARE
REDUCED/ DETRACTED FROM THEIR
QUALITY OF CARE 40.8% 29.0% 17.3% INCREASED/
IMPROVED THEIR EFFICIENCY
19.4% 5.5%
HAD LITTLE TO NO IMPACT ON THEIR EFFICIENCY
REDUCED/
DETRACTED FROM THEIR EFFICIENCY
INCREASED/
IMPROVED THEIR INTERACTION WITH PATIENTS
HAD LITTLE TO NO IMPACT ON THEIR INTERACTION WITH PATIENTS
REDUCED/
DETRACTED FROM THEIR INTERACTION WITH PATIENTS
63.3% 15.3%
RARELY HAVE THESE FEELINGS
SOMETIMES HAVE THESE FEELINGS
OFTEN HAVE THESE FEELINGS
78.7%
Texas physician survey respondents who say patient relationships are the most satisfying part of medical practice
65.5% NEGATIVE VERY 25.9% 6.8% POSITIVE VERY
SOMEWHAT POSITIVE
FEELINGS OF PROFESSIONAL BURNOUT ALL 25.4% 31.4% 17.2%
HAVE THESE FEELINGS
ALWAYS
SOMEWHAT NEGATIVE
NEGATIVE VERY 30.4% 21.4% 41.4% NEGATIVE VERY 37.5% 36.0% 17.9%
U.S. physicians love their pati ents and hate paperwork. Unfortunately, The Physicians Foundati on’s 2016 Survey of America’s Physicians (tma .ti ps/2016PhysicianSurvey) fi nds the paperwork is winning. Sixty- one percent of Texas physicians surveyed say their morale is somewhat or very negati ve, and 51.5 percent say they either oft en or always feel burned out.
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