Physician Workforce

Emergency medicine tops the list of physician specialties with the highest percentage of burnout, according to a survey with over 13,000 responses from physicians and nonphysician providers across 30 states conducted by the American Medical Association.

Here are the best and worst states across a variety of metrics that Becker's has reported on since July 17:

WalletHub published its ranking of the best states for healthcare on July 31. One of the dimensions used to determine the ranking was healthcare access, which was based on 24 different metrics such as physicians per capita, hospital beds per…

Eighty-four percent of physician assistants are satisfied with their current job and the majority of physician assistants across all specialties reported no symptoms of burnout, according to a survey conducted by the National Commission on Certification of Physician Assistants. 

Only 34 percent of Americans have visited their primary care provider within the last year, according to a survey conducted by OnePoll for Assurance IQ.

94.6 percent of hospitals have been addressing physician shortages through telemedicine programs, according to the results of the Eagle 2023 Telemedicine Adoption Survey.

Here are seven strikes that involve hospitals and health systems that Becker's has reported on since Aug. 3:

California has the most active physicians of any state, according to May data from KFF:

David Robbins, MD, gastroenterologist at New York City-based Northwell Health, joined Becker's to discuss noncompetes and the hardest choices he's had to make as a physician. 

There are 1,077,115 active physicians in the U.S., according to May data from KFF.