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Medical Economics: What's ruining medicine for physicians?
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What issues are ruining medicine for physicians? Please choose up to three.
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Difficulty of using EHRs
Healthcare mergers/consolidation
High prescription drug costs
Physician burnout
Prior authorizations
MOC costs and requirements
Medical student loan debt
Value-based care
Lack of interoperability in patient data
Rising practice staff and overhead costs
No negotiating leverage with payers
Paperwork/administrative burdens
Imbalance in primary care vs. specialist reimbursements
Defensive medicine
Patients not respecting/listening to physicians
Government regulations
Replacing primary care physicians with NPs/PAs
Medical school doesn’t prepare physicians for realities of practicing medicine
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Is there an issue you think is ruining medicine that is not included on our list? Tell us below: