Primary care doctors in the US are becoming frustrated with increasing burden of seeing too many patients that some of them are thinking to quit the profession entirely.

Some others, are trying very hard to find ways to reduce the number of patients they see every day, despite the good salary the medical field can offer.

In a nutshell, high pay does not justify them to be part of an overworked bunch.

The conclusion was made after a new research was released in the US yesterday and was done by the Physician’s Foundation, founded in 2003. The report went on to find out that out of 12,000 general practice physicians who responded to the survey, 60% of them apparently did not recommend medicine as one’s career of choice. Close to 80% of them also believed that the country is facing a serious shortage of primary care doctors.

11% respondents are now planning to retire from the field, while another 13% are looking for jobs that come without the element of patient care. 10% of them plan to turn their full time job into part time. One anonymous respondent revealed, “The whole thing has spun out of control. I plan to retire early even though I still love seeing patients. The process has just become too burdensome.”

The reform of the health care is one of the top priorities for the President-elect Barrack Obama, and once in power, he would be needed to entertain the doctor’s groups request to have their workload reduced.

Recent research published by Forbes indicated that medical has the most highest paid jobs in America for the year 2008. The result was so overwhelming that the 9 of the 10 highest paid jobs in the country come from the medical field.