Characteristics of physicians (N=93)
| Characteristics | |
| Age (in years) | |
| Mean (SD) | 30.2 (2.4) |
| Median (IQR) | 30.0 (29.0–31.0) |
| Gender, n (%) | |
| Male | 57 (61.3) |
| Female | 36 (38.7) |
| Race, n (%) | |
| White and/or Caucasian American* | 56 (60.2) |
| Black and/or African American | 3 (3.2) |
| Asian and/or Asian American* | 27 (29.0) |
| Other | 8 (7.6) |
| Ethnicity, n (%) | |
| Hispanic | 2 (2.0) |
| Non-Hispanic | 91 (97.8) |
| Medical specialty, n (%) | |
| Anaesthesiology | 15 (16.1) |
| Internal medicine | 34 (36.6) |
| Emergency medicine | 10 (10.8) |
| Surgery† | 11 (12.0) |
| Other‡ | 23 (24.9) |
| Political views, n (%) | |
| Conservative | 6 (6.5) |
| Moderate | 32 (34.4) |
| Liberal | 52 (55.9) |
| Not specified | 3 (3.2) |
| Political party, n (%) | |
| Democrat | 61 (65.6) |
| Republican | 12 (12.9) |
| Libertarian | 3 (3.2) |
| Socialist | 1 (1.1) |
| Not specified | 16 (17.2) |
*One participant identified as both white and/or Caucasian American and Asian and/or Asian American.
†Surgery includes general surgery, ophthalmology, orthopaedics, otolaryngology and urology.
‡Other includes dermatology, family medicine and community health, neurology, obstetrics and gynaecology, physical medicine and rehabilitation, psychiatry, and radiation oncology.