The 8 worst states for physician quality of life

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The eight states that ranked lowest in our quality of life metric.

The actual practice of medicine is only part of deciding where to start your practice.

To give more insight into which states have the highest quality of life, we present our rankings. These are the eight states with the highest rankings for anyone running a physicians practice.

For the quality of life metric, Physicians Practice used Wallethub’s Best States to Retire rankings which were based on adjusted cost of living, lowest annual cost of in-home services, their own taxpayer ranking, the percentage of the workforce aged 65 and older, museums per capita, theaters per capita, percentage of population aged 65 and older, life expectancy, and property crime rate.

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Best states 50-41, 40-31, 30-21

How we got our results

The worst states for cost of living

The best states for cost of living


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