Physician opinions and feedback are much in demand. We are asked hundreds of questions by our patients, our staffs, physician colleagues and friends. Email links to surveys and questionnaires arrive in abundance and urge us to respond.

But, whether you suffer from survey saturation, opinion overload, or feedback fatigue, I urge you to participate in yet one more request for information.

The Physicians Foundation is seeking input from every practicing physician in the U.S. in a survey designed to provide a “state of the union” report on our medical profession. It will examine the morale, career plans and practice metrics of today’s doctors.

What is the Physicians Foundation? It is a non-profit grant-making organization of state and county medical societies formed to help practicing physicians succeed in a changing health care system. It exists to ensure the physician perspective is presented.

The survey will be emailed in March to every practicing physician in the country. In the words of Walker Ray, M.D., vice president of The Physicians Foundation: “If the survey indicates that the medical profession itself is in jeopardy, then that urgent message must be heard both by policy makers and the public.”

Data specific to Indiana will be provided to the ISMA and communicated back to you in ISMA Reports, so I hope you will participate. We’ll be interested in your perceptions.