Understanding U.S. Physician Satisfaction: State of the Evidence and Future Directions.

The article reviews updates on the knowledge about U.S. physician satisfaction and proposes new foci to understand and study the topic that align better with the evolving U.S. healthcare delivery system, physicians' everyday work situations and medicine's internal demographic changes. It notes that U.S. physicians experience moderate to high levels of job, work and career satisfaction which have remained stable over time.