Helping or Hurting Doctors’ Reputation? Medscape Physician Behavior Report 2023 (Medscape)

Medicine is a profession that prides itself on a high standard of both ethical and professional behavior. Expectations for proper conduct by physicians commonly are applied not only at work but also in the community and on social media, even if some doctors chafe at the latter standard. For this report, Medscape asked US physicians how often and where they see other doctors behaving poorly, when their own conduct got out of line, and how misbehavior should be addressed.