IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/eee/socmed/v52y2001i6p825-837.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Physician satisfaction revisited

Author

Listed:
  • Dunstone, David C.
  • Reames, Harold R.

Abstract

Nineteen US physicians were interviewed in 1987 to identify how they defined and addressed the changes facing them. Attitudes and problem-solving approaches of physicians who remained satisfied were compared with those deemed dissatisfied. In this ten-year follow-up study, the original subjects were re-contacted and asked to describe changes in their practices, and other questions regarding their professional lives. They were rated by themselves and the authors for satisfaction. Eighteen responded and could be rearranged into three groups by ratings of satisfaction. Representative responses delineate each group and explore various aspects differentiating responses within the grouping. Conclusion: past satisfaction with medical practice is no predictor of current satisfaction. Only those who either embraced change or found a means of escape from the issues facing them earlier were judged satisfied. The majority describe strategies to reduce fatigue, and to maintain some control over their professional lives.

Suggested Citation

  • Dunstone, David C. & Reames, Harold R., 2001. "Physician satisfaction revisited," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 52(6), pages 825-837, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:socmed:v:52:y:2001:i:6:p:825-837
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277-9536(00)00186-6
    Download Restriction: Full text for ScienceDirect subscribers only
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Wallace, Jean Elizabeth & Lemaire, Jane, 2007. "On physician well being--You'll get by with a little help from your friends," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 64(12), pages 2565-2577, June.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:eee:socmed:v:52:y:2001:i:6:p:825-837. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Catherine Liu (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/315/description#description .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.