Family medicine is the specialty with the most witnessed incidents of physician bad behavior, according to Medscape's report, "Physicians Behaving Badly: Has It Gotten Worse?"
Medscape surveyed more than 2,000 physicians for a report on the extent and nature of bad behavior among physicians in the past five years.
Here are the physician specialties with the most bad behaviors witnessed in the workplace:
- Family medicine: 14 percent
- Internal medicine: 11 percent
- Pediatrics: 11 percent
- Anesthesiology: 6 percent
- Emergency medicine: 6 percent
- Psychiatry: 6 percent
- OB-GYN: 5 percent
- Orthopedic surgery: 4 percent
- Radiology: 4 percent
- Cardiology: 2 percent
- Dermatology: 2 percent
- Neurology: 2 percent
- Oncology: 2 percent
- Ophthalmology: 2 percent
- Pathology: 2 percent