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Lauren Dubinsky, Senior Reporter | September 17, 2014
When it comes to morale the majority of respondents (56 percent) were pessimistic about current state of the medical profession, but that was an improvement from 2012 when 68 percent expressed pessimism.
The reason for the uptake in optimism may be due to the changing composition of the respondents, with younger physicians being more optimistic than older ones and female physicians more optimistic than males. Additionally, physicians who identified themselves as part of a larger group were significantly more optimistic than solo practitioners (51 percent compared to 33 percent).
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The respondents were also asked to give the ACA a grade and 46 percent gave it a D or F. Notably, the younger employed physicians gave the ACA a better grade than the older private practice owners.
"The state of the physician workforce, and medicine in general, is experiencing a period of massive transition," Lou Goodman, president of The Physicians Foundation and CEO of the Texas Medical Association, said in a statement. "As such, the growing diversity of the physician workforce will reflect different perspectives and sentiments surrounding the state of medicine."
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