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The evidence for harm to people who are deprived of sleep, or work irregular hours, is robust. Research from Europe and the United States on nonstandard work hours and sleep deprivation found that late-hour workers are subject to higher risks of gastrointestinal disorders, cardiovascular disease, breast cancer, miscarriage, preterm birth, and low birth weight of their newborns.
Primary care physicians, the most common specialty, have the lowest earnings. [8] The highest earners tend to be specialists who perform procedures and surgeons. [8] Physician salaries in the United States comprise 8.6% of total national healthcare spending. [8] On average, physicians in the US work 55 hours each week.
Today the average hours worked in the U.S. is around 33, [22] with the average man employed full-time for 8.4 hours per work day, and the average woman employed full-time for 7.9 hours per work day. [23] The front runners for lowest average weekly work hours are the Netherlands with 27 hours, [24] and France with 30 hours. [25] In a 2011 report ...
California has a lot of work to do to build a representative physician workforce. Latinos account for just 6% of physicians, despite making up 39% of the state’s population.
There are approximately 230,187 physician practices in the United States. [2] Among the physician practices, 16.5% had only one office-based physician in 2016. [ 3 ] Physician group practices with 2-4 physicians make up 22.3% of physician offices in the United States, 19.8% have 5-10 physicians, 12.1% have 11-24 physicians, 6.3% have 25–49 ...
For instance, data show that workers who took the bus to work had an average commute of 46.3 minutes, significantly longer than the national average of 26.7 minutes. (U.S. Census)
The members of the Board are eight physicians and five public members appointed by the Governor, one public member appointed by the Speaker of the Assembly, and one public member appointed by the Senate Rules Committee. In fiscal year 2016-2017, the Board had 137,967 physician licenses in effect, and issued 6,802 new physician licenses. [3]
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