Medical professionalism: Volunteerism and voter participation of physicians

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Medical professionalism Volunteerism and voter
participation of physicians
David Grande, MD, MPA1,2 Katrina Armstrong, MD,
MSCE2,3 1Robert Wood Johnson Health Society
Scholars Program 2Leonard Davis Institute of
Health Economics, University of Pennsylvania
3Division of General Internal Medicine,
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
Figure 1 Adjusted Probability of Voting
Table 1 Summary Statistics

• Similarly, physicians were less likely to have
  volunteered (OR 0.54 CI 0.42, 0.69) and
  volunteered 36.8 fewer hours (CI -47.8, -25.8)
  in the prior year than the general population.
• Of the doctors that volunteered, 25.2 provided
  professional or management assistance including
  board service and 19.5 provided health services.