S1 Ep186: When physicians know the right care and can't give it, with Rebecca Schoon of Pacific University

Off the Chart: A Business of Medicine Podcast · Sep 17, 2026 · 30m · transcript

In a national survey of more than 1,200 practicing physicians, 47% said they often or always lacked the time to give patients optimal care, and 27% said they had already left a job because of moral distress. Rebecca Schoon, Ph.D., one of the authors of the Physicians for a National Health Program report behind those numbers, says the patients her team heard from in Oregon could see what was happening to their doctors and did not blame them for it.

Medical Economics Senior Editor Richard Payerchin sat down with Schoon, an associate professor of public health at Pacific University and a board…