Best States For Doctors:
Doctors are among the most highly paid, educated and celebrated professionals in the U.S. Just consider the fact that “physician” is the most popular profession within the top 1 percent of earners. Doctors are deserving, after all, given the importance of their life-saving work and all of the struggles associated with life in the medical profession.
Not only does the average medical-school graduate leave campus with roughly $180,000 in debt, but the medical profession has also been undergoing intense transformation in recent years. TheAffordable Care Act, the rise of branded hospital networks and the retirement of Baby Boomers are all complicating the lives of doctors and warranting pause from potential whitecoats.
With all of this being said, it’s fair to expect a certain measure of difference in terms of the working environments faced by doctors across the nation. So in order to help doctors make the most informed decisions regarding where to practice, WalletHub’s analysts compared the 50 states and the District of Columbia across 11 key metrics. Our data set ranges from “physicians’ mean annual wage” to “number of physicians per capita” to “malpractice award payouts per capita.” Check out the complete ranking, additional expert commentary to help local governments identify policy initiatives and our detailed methodology below.
Best States For Doctors
Medicine is changing rapidly, and the manner in which it is taught and practiced must adapt accordingly. The industry faces not only an aging population as well as new regulations, but it must also keep pace with technological breakthroughs and make sense of hospital reorganization and rebranding. With that in mind, we sought insight from medical professionals, business experts and public policy researchers into the future of the medical profession. You can check out our panel as well as the questions we asked…
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