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131 - Physicians Without On-Call Duties Are the Happiest in 2025—And What That Means for Your Medical Practice

Coach JPMD Season 2 Episode 131

Did you know that the happiest doctors in 2025 don’t work in hospitals—and they’re not who you think?

If you’re a physician feeling overwhelmed by call schedules, burnout, or lack of work-life balance, this episode unpacks real data on the medical specialties where doctors are thriving—not just surviving.

  • Discover the top 5 happiest medical specialties based on a 2025 Medscape survey.
  • Learn the common traits these specialties share (hint: they involve zero emergency calls).
  • Find out what this means for your own career shift from corporate to independent practice.

Hit play now to uncover which specialties top the physician happiness list and share this episode with a colleague.

Source: https://www.inspiraadvantage.com/blog/the-happiest-medical-specialties





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Coach JPMD (00:00)
Did you know that the happiest doctors are actually allergists? Welcome back to another episode where I help younger physicians decrease stress and increase income by transitioning from corporate to independent practices, even without any business experience. Thank you for listening to another Did You Know episode. And this week's episode is about the happiest professions in medicine, the happiest medical specialties of 2025. And in May 14th, 2025 Medscape did a survey

and surveyed thousands of doctors in the US and found that allergists or allergy and immunology specialists were among the happiest physicians in the US. Who knew? Pathology came in second at 88%.

happiness score, guess. Dermatology is 87 % and public health and preventative medicine came out, came in at 87 % and psychiatry came out at 87%, 87%. So the top five specialties with the happiest physicians all do outpatient medicine ⁓ and don't see patients in the hospital. So if you're interested,

In finding out more, I'll leave a link in the description below with some details. But some of the things that I found after researching was that many of the happiest specialists are happy because they don't have the emergency demands. So you never see pathologist unless you're medical examiner. You don't have to really deal with emergencies. Emergencies, dermatologists, public health, preventative medicine.

psychiatry. really no emergency calls, probably no weekends. So there you have it. The happiest physicians are the allergists and immunologists. See you next week for another Did You Know episode here on the Independent Physicians Blueprint where we help you decrease stress and increase wealth in this crazy world we're living in. Thank you so much for listening to the podcast. If you'd like to hear more, subscribe, follow, and your favorite podcast app so you'll never miss an episode.