Primary Care Physicians Dissatisfied With Their Earnings

A recent survey of primary care physicians finds that while most are satisfied with their careers, they find their compensation to be inadequate. In fact, only 37.6% say that they would choose primary care if they had to do it all over again. 28.6% wouldn’t have even gone into medicine at all. They are struggling to pay the overhead costs necessary to operate their practices.

The survey does not provide solutions to keeping primary care doctors in business and encouraging medical student to choose primary care for their careers. However, it does demonstrate that primary care physicians enjoy their work - money is the primary reason why they are leaving the field in droves.