Professional stress

Percent of total physicians who agree or strongly agree with the following:

	Overall	Female	Male	34 and under	35-44	45-54	55-64	65 and over
Total	3385	958	2427	330	1118	1039	609	289
Workload is heavier than I would like	62%	59%	63%	52%	68%	70%	58%	33%
Family/personal life has suffered from choosing medicine as a profession	55%	52%	57%	53%	59%	58%	50%	44%
Patient expectations are unreasonably high	59%	58%	59%	56%	61%	63%	53%	50%
Lack of locums has affected ability to take vacation	31%	34%	30%	33%	34%	33%	26%	23%
On-call responsibilities too onerous	27%	20%	30%	21%	28%	31%	28%	13%
Professional income has been discounted in last year	58%	49%	62%	53%	58%	60%	60%	54%
Opportunities are limited to change career path	65%	63%	66%	69%	67%	66%	65%	51%

Percent of total physicians who agree or strongly agree with the following:

	GP/FP	Med Spec	Surg Spec	Rural	Urban
Total	1736	1184	465	294	3091
Workload is heavier than I would like	61%	63%	63%	59%	62%
Family/personal life has suffered from choosing medicine as a profession	55%	51%	66%	58%	55%
Patient expectations are unreasonably high	64%	51%	60%	55%	59%
Lack of locums has affected ability to take vacation	42%	29%	21%	43%	30%
On-call responsibilities too onerous	24%	26%	41%	35%	26%
Professional income has been discounted in last year	61%	52%	66%	56%	59%
Opportunities are limited to change career path	66%	64%	65%	65%	65%