Report: Office-Based Doctors Help To Fuel U.S. Economy
Office-based physicians contributed $1.4 trillion to the U.S. economy in 2009 and supported four million jobs, according to a state-by-state report from the American Medical Association. The report noted that office-based physicians had contributed the most in California, at $137.9 billion, and the least in Wyoming, at $1 billion.
- "Docs Pour Money, Jobs Into U.S. Economy" (Fiore, MedPage Today, 3/24).