Doctors are giving up their private practices to go to work for hospitals because of the uncertainty of Obamacare.
Last year, 64% of job offers filled through Merritt Hawkins, one of the nation's leading physician placement firms, involved hospital employment compared with only 11% in 2004.
What does this mean to you? I know personally one young doctor who has given up his family practice leaving his patients to find other primary care physicians -- which is increasingly difficult as the doctor shortage begins to make itself apparent.
"Worried doctors flee private practice for salaried hospital jobs." The Dallas Morning News; February 14, 2014; p. 7A.
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