One in nine of the physicians in the largest recent study of doctors who left American medicine never practiced it. They finished medical school. They finished residency — eight to ten years, the better part of a million dollars, the eighty-hour weeks, the whole sunk-cost cathedral — and then they did not see a single … Continue reading The Most Useful Word in Medicine
What the Doctors Are Escaping From
Two national surveys, sixteen years apart, bracket a shift sharp enough to demand explanation rather than description. Physicians who left clinical practice in a 2008 cohort did so at a mean age of 57.1. In a comparable 2024 cohort, the mean exit age was 48.1 — nine years younger. The 2024 figure comes from a … Continue reading What the Doctors Are Escaping From
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