Factors such as high rates of violent crime, bad traffic, high malpractice rates, high levels of divorce and low rates of primary care physicians per capita can raise stress by making physicians feel stretched too thin and burdened by additional worries.
Medscape ranked the worst five cities for physicians based how the local environment and healthcare market could affect physician well-being. Here are the five cities that came out on bottom.
1. New Orleans
2. Phoenix
3. Las Vegas
4. Albuquerque, N.M.
5. Tulsa, Okla.
Read more about why these locations were chosen here.
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