Here are six workforce updates that Becker's reported on in February:
- The average age of all practicing physicians in the U.S. is 53.9 — more than 10 years older than the U.S. labor force median age of 41.8.
- Urology is the most depressed physician specialty.
- Fifty-four percent of physicians said they would take a pay cut for better work-life balance.
- Marriage satisfaction rates are highest among pulmonary medicine physicians.
- Half of female physicians said they feel "very conflicted" or "conflicted" as parents due to work demands, while 32% of male physicians reported the same.
- Ninety percent of physicians said they have experienced either clinical or colloquial depression.