{"id":30720,"date":"2012-07-30T09:25:37","date_gmt":"2012-07-30T13:25:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/?post_type=voices&#038;p=30720"},"modified":"2012-07-30T09:25:37","modified_gmt":"2012-07-30T13:25:37","slug":"and-the-survey-says-you-are-thinking-about-retirement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/2012\/07\/30\/and-the-survey-says-you-are-thinking-about-retirement\/","title":{"rendered":"And The Survey Says: You Are Thinking About Retirement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I saw <a href=\"http:\/\/www.healthleadersmedia.com\/content\/PHY-282762\/1-in-3-Physicians-Plans-to-Quit-Within-10-Years\">a news item<\/a> today with an alarming statistic about the number of doctors who plan to retire in the next decade. We all have days where work can be frustrating \u2013 but the article indicated that 45% of cardiologists planned to retire in the next decade. I was thinking about what the natural attrition rate might be and how this compared with other eras. What is your experience? Do you have the sense that people are planning to leave the profession earlier than they might have planned a few years ago? The job market for new cardiologists remains tight.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>What do you think? Are we headed for an unprecedented exodus from the field?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I saw a news item today with an alarming statistic about the number of doctors who plan to retire in the next decade. We all have days where work can be frustrating \u2013 but the article indicated that 45% of cardiologists planned to retire in the next decade. I was thinking about what the natural [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":211,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1383,1382],"class_list":["post-30720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-professional","tag-retirement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/211"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30720\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}