A recent American Medical News article reviews the Kaiser survey and indicates that physician job dissatisfaction is often linked to problems with managed care plans. In fact, three of four doctors in the survey of over 2,600 agreed that, managed care has a negative impact on their practice of medicine. "Since managed care has become a part of our health system, physicians see it as having negative influences," said Mollyann Brodie, PhD, the Kaiser foundation's vice president for public opinion and media research. The article also provides specific doctor experiences from a variety of specialty areas. Tampa, FL family physician Dr. David Lubin summed up the feelings of many medical professionals when he noted in referring to his profession "Although the insurance companies make it difficult at times, that's what I've been trained to do." For the complete article and additional details concerning the survey and related surveys please go to www.ama-assn.org.