{"id":12044,"date":"2012-10-16T13:10:44","date_gmt":"2012-10-16T19:10:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/?p=12044"},"modified":"2012-10-16T13:14:13","modified_gmt":"2012-10-16T19:14:13","slug":"report-idaho-ranked-best-place-to-be-a-doctor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/2012\/10\/16\/report-idaho-ranked-best-place-to-be-a-doctor\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Idaho Ranked Best Place To Be A Doctor"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_12045\"  class=\"wp-caption module image left\" style=\"max-width: 300px;\"><a class=\"fancybox\" title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/files\/2012\/10\/Stethescope-CU.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12045\" title=\"Stethescope CU\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/files\/2012\/10\/Stethescope-CU-e1350341751926-300x222.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"222\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/files\/2012\/10\/Stethescope-CU-e1350341751926-300x222.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/files\/2012\/10\/Stethescope-CU-e1350341751926-620x460.jpg 620w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-media-credit\">Emilie Ritter Saunders \/ StateImpact<\/p><p class=\"wp-caption-text\"> <\/p><\/div>\n<p>United Press International <a href=\"http:\/\/www.upi.com\/Health_News\/2012\/10\/15\/Ranking-Idaho-best-place-for-physicians\/UPI-97481350334890\/\" target=\"_blank\">reports<\/a> Idaho is the best place to be a physician.<\/p>\n<p>The annual rankings compiled by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.physicianspractice.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Physicians Practice<\/a> say Idaho is the best place to practice because of it&#8217;s &#8220;low rate of disciplinary actions against doctors.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s more from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.upi.com\/Health_News\/2012\/10\/15\/Ranking-Idaho-best-place-for-physicians\/UPI-97481350334890\/\" target=\"_blank\">UPI.com<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Physicians Practice&#8217;s Best States to Practice ranking found Idaho, Alabama, Texas, Nevada and South Carolina were the top places for doctors to practice by Physicians Practice, which provides physician practice management advice to more than 150,000 physicians and their practice administrators throughout the United States. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Bob Keaveney, editorial director of Physicians Practice, which has been developing its Best States to Practice list since 2003, said Idaho&#8217;s low cost of living and culture of physician independence make it the best place in America to be a practicing physician for the second straight year.<\/p>\n<p>The Idaho medical board&#8217;s low rate of disciplinary actions against physicians, its low density of practicing physicians per capita and its relatively friendly malpractice climate were among the reasons that Idaho ranked on top, Keaveney said. &#8211; UPI.com<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"related-content alignleft\"><h4 class=\"related-header\">Related<\/h4><div class=\"links\"><h5>Posts<\/h5><ul><li class=\"link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/2012\/10\/02\/why-idahos-doctor-shortage-wont-be-easy-to-solve\/\">Why Idaho\u2019s Doctor Shortage Won\u2019t Be Easy To\u00a0Solve<\/a><\/li><li class=\"link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/2012\/10\/04\/how-idaho-is-trying-to-boost-its-number-of-doctors\/\">How Idaho Is Trying To Boost Its Number Of Doctors<\/a><\/li><li class=\"link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/2012\/10\/12\/as-idahos-doctor-workforce-ages-who-is-stepping-up-to-replace-them\/\">As Idaho\u2019s Doctor Workforce Ages, Who Is Stepping Up To Replace Them?<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/div><div class=\"topics\"><h5>Topics<\/h5><p class=\"topic\"><img class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/files\/2012\/09\/Smither-Petrie.jpg\" height=\"60\" width=\"60\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/topic\/doctor-shortage\/\">Understanding Idaho\u2019s Doctor Shortage<\/a><\/p><\/div><\/div>\n<p>At the same time, Idaho remains one of the states with the greatest need for physicians.<\/p>\n<p>As <em>StateImpact<\/em> has been reporting over the last couple of weeks, Idaho has <a title=\"Why Idaho\u2019s Doctor Shortage Won\u2019t Be Easy To\u00a0Solve\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/2012\/10\/02\/why-idahos-doctor-shortage-wont-be-easy-to-solve\/\" target=\"_blank\">fewer doctors per capita<\/a> than every state in the nation except Mississippi.<\/p>\n<p>Contributing to the shortage, <a title=\"As Idaho\u2019s Doctor Workforce Ages, Who Is Stepping Up To Replace Them?\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/2012\/10\/12\/as-idahos-doctor-workforce-ages-who-is-stepping-up-to-replace-them\/\" target=\"_blank\">Idaho&#8217;s doctor workforce is aging<\/a>.\u00a0 More than 41 percent of doctors here are 55 or older.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>United Press International reports Idaho is the best place to be a physician. The annual rankings compiled by Physicians Practice say Idaho is the best place to practice because of it&#8217;s &#8220;low rate of disciplinary actions against doctors.&#8221; Here&#8217;s more from UPI.com: The Physicians Practice&#8217;s Best States to Practice ranking found Idaho, Alabama, Texas, Nevada [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":12045,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[183,188],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12044"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12044"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12044\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12066,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12044\/revisions\/12066"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}