One in 10 family docs with burnout consider quitting medicine

Most in committed, satisfying relationships

Most family medicine physicians are juggling committed relationships with work life. In this survey, 78% said they were married, and another 5% said they were living with a partner.

A little more than half of married family doctors described their marriages as very good (51%). The rest were good (32%); fair (13%); poor (2%); and very poor (2%). Some (15%) had spouses who were also physicians, and 25% said their spouses worked in the health care field but were not physicians.

Almost all family physicians were able to take some vacation time during this reporting period – 43% took 3-4 weeks; 35% took 1-2 weeks; 10% took less than 1 week; 9% took 5-6 weeks; and 4% took more than 6 weeks.

If they drove to vacation destinations, they were likely to be in their favorite make of vehicle, which for family physicians were Toyotas (22%), Hondas (14%) and Fords (11%), according to the survey responses. Physicians overall favored Toyotas, Hondas, and BMWs.

A version of this article first appeared on Medscape.com.