Why Doctors Hate Their Jobs

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Credit to Physician Side Gigs and Nisha Mehta, MD for posting this chart. The study source is from this article: Why Have All the Doctors Gone? Insights Into Early Clinical Departure Among Physicians in the United States: A National Survey.

How many of the factors above are fixed by Direct Primary Care?

A lot.

The first four hit home: hassle factor, too stressful, increasingly unrealistic patient demands, and lack of professsional satisfaction.

Any others come to mind? EHR frustration? On call responsibility? Practice not economically viable?

We are at a point in life where physicians need to choose their own destinies, or those destinies (quitting medicine) are chosen for us.

About Douglas Farrago, MD

Dr. Farrago is a retired family physician based in Forest, Virginia. Since 2021, he has run DPCnews.com, a leading resource for the Direct Primary Care (DPC) movement. He is the author of three best-selling books on Direct Primary Care: The Official Guide to Starting Your Own Direct Primary Care Practice The Direct Primary Care Doctor’s Daily Motivational Journal Slowing the Churn in Direct Primary Care (While Also Keeping Your Sanity) In 2016, Dr. Farrago conceived the idea for the Direct Primary Care Alliance and co-founded the organization alongside other pioneering DPC physicians. He is widely recognized as a leading expert in the DPC model and frequently lectures to medical students, residents, and practicing physicians on how to successfully start and run their own DPC practices.Dr. Farrago sold his Direct Primary Care practice in October 2020 but continues to receive care there as a patient.