ATTENTION: NEWS AND STORY PRODUCERS
Weekly JAMA Feature for February 23
DECLINING WORK HOURS REPORTED BY U.S. PHYSICIANS
JAMA RADIO REPORT
Each week, JAMA, the Journal of the American Medical Association produces a one-minute radio news package, and makes it available to stations free of charge at www.TheJAMAReport.org
Producers can download MP3 versions of the packages, and are free to edit the pieces and/or use the actualities as best suits their stations’ needs.
Each week, JAMA, the Journal of the American Medical Association produces a one-minute radio news package, and makes it available to stations free of charge at www.TheJAMAReport.org
Producers can download MP3 versions of the packages, and are free to edit the pieces and/or use the actualities as best suits their stations’ needs.
This week’s package has an embargo: 4pm(ET) Tuesday, February 23, 2010
Radio script (TRT 1:00)
February 23, 2010
VO: THE LAST DECADE SAW AN UNPRECEDENTED DROP IN PHYSICIAN WORK HOURS NATIONWIDE. A NEW STUDY SAYS SEVERAL FACTORS INCLUDING LOWER FEES AND INCREASED MARKET PRESSURES MAY BE CONNECTED TO THE DECLINE.
“There’s been a growth in managed care over the last decade and there’s been increased kind of market pressures on physicians, all of these things have probably contributed to making working that last hour a little bit less pleasant for physicians, a little less rewarding.”
VO: DR. DOUGLAS STAIGER FROM DARTMOUTH COLLEGE AND CO-AUTHORS STUDIED PHYSICIAN DATA FROM THE U.S. CENSUS BUREAU POPULATION SURVEY BETWEEN 1976 AND 2008. THE STUDY APPEARS IN THIS WEEK’S JAMA, JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION. RESEARCHERS SAW TWO REASONS LINKING FINANCIAL AND COMPETITIVE PRESSURES WITH DECREASED WORK HOURS.
“One, is fees declined about 25 percent adjusted for inflation at the same time that hours were declining over this last decade, the second was that regions that had the lowest fees also saw physicians working the fewest hours.”
VO: CATHERINE DOLF, THE JAMA REPORT.
Radio script (TRT 1:00)
February 23, 2010
VO: THE LAST DECADE SAW AN UNPRECEDENTED DROP IN PHYSICIAN WORK HOURS NATIONWIDE. A NEW STUDY SAYS SEVERAL FACTORS INCLUDING LOWER FEES AND INCREASED MARKET PRESSURES MAY BE CONNECTED TO THE DECLINE.
“There’s been a growth in managed care over the last decade and there’s been increased kind of market pressures on physicians, all of these things have probably contributed to making working that last hour a little bit less pleasant for physicians, a little less rewarding.”
VO: DR. DOUGLAS STAIGER FROM DARTMOUTH COLLEGE AND CO-AUTHORS STUDIED PHYSICIAN DATA FROM THE U.S. CENSUS BUREAU POPULATION SURVEY BETWEEN 1976 AND 2008. THE STUDY APPEARS IN THIS WEEK’S JAMA, JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION. RESEARCHERS SAW TWO REASONS LINKING FINANCIAL AND COMPETITIVE PRESSURES WITH DECREASED WORK HOURS.
“One, is fees declined about 25 percent adjusted for inflation at the same time that hours were declining over this last decade, the second was that regions that had the lowest fees also saw physicians working the fewest hours.”
VO: CATHERINE DOLF, THE JAMA REPORT.