NCMS Member Survey 12/09

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Thank you for your time and dedication to the North Carolina Medical Society. Your responses to this survey will be kept confidential and will be used to help guide the NCMS leadership and staff as they set priorities for the upcoming year. For more information about your membership and NCMS activities, visit www.ncmedsoc.org. Thank you!

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* 1. What is the most important issue you think the medical profession will face in the next five years?

Decreased reimbursement/compensation

Universal health care/health system reform

Malpractice reform/costs

Shortage of doctors

Increasing costs

Indigent care/uninsured access to care

Government involvement in medicine

Don't know

Other (please specify)

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* 2. What professional issues keep you up at night or cause the most stress in your life?

Malpractice/liability

Reimbursement/getting paid

Practice cash flow/finances

Paperwork/administrative concerns

Quality of patient care

Problems with insurance companies

Too much work/long hours

Indigent care/uninsured

Patients/patient care

Skyrocketing costs

Political issues

Don't know

Other (please specify)

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* 3. What is the primary reason you joined the NCMS?

To support my profession

To network with other professionals

To receive a special benefit

I was encouraged by another NCMS member

Don't know

Other (please specify)

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* 4. The NCMS advocates for or provides services to protect the medical profession. Please check all of the following activities of which you ARE NOT aware of NCMS involvement:

Opposition to excessive Medical Board profiling rules

Objections to eleven separate scope of practice challenges

Health care reform resources

Protection for physician-owned physician therapy services

Opposition to births and law midwifery legislation

Resistance to deregulation of alternative health care