--- title: Your Doctor Is Less Likely to Vote Than You description: Doctors vote 9% less than the general population and 22% less than lawyers canonical: https://time.com/4552201/doctor-physician-voting-election-day/ author: Mandy Oaklander article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-10-31T21:00:46.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-23T01:31:52.361Z article:section: Health og:title: Your Doctor Is Less Likely to Vote Than You og:description: Doctors vote 9% less than the general population and 22% less than lawyers og:url: https://time.com/4552201/doctor-physician-voting-election-day/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc23ab391cb1c3562/6988ac4e8e0601f78d4680ec/physican-stethoscope-doctor.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 5200 og:image:height: 2925 og:image:alt: physican stethoscope doctor og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Your Doctor Is Less Likely to Vote Than You twitter:description: Doctors vote 9% less than the general population and 22% less than lawyers twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc23ab391cb1c3562/6988ac4e8e0601f78d4680ec/physican-stethoscope-doctor.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Your Doctor Is Less Likely to Vote Than You > Sponsored content. 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Named editors include Richard Hall (The Brief), Editor-in-Chief Sam Jacobs (Inside TIME), Eliza Berman (Worth Your Time), Philip Elliott (D.C. Brief), Justin Worland (Future Proof) and Harry Booth (In the Loop). Health Matters is written by TIME's health desk. #### How do I sign up for a TIME newsletter? Go to time.com/newsletters, choose the newsletters you want and enter your email address. There is no cost and no subscription requirement.  by [Mandy Oaklander](https://time.com/author/mandy-oaklander/)  ## Mandy Oaklander Oaklander is a senior editor at TIME. Oct 31, 2016 9:00 PM UTC  Close up detail of doctor's hands holding stethoscope in hospital Close up detail of doctor's hands holding stethoscope in hospital Getty Images  by [Mandy Oaklander](https://time.com/author/mandy-oaklander/)  ## Mandy Oaklander Oaklander is a senior editor at TIME. Oct 31, 2016 9:00 PM UTC There’s hardly a more educated group of people than physicians, who spend about 14 years in training. Yet they’re some of the least likely Americans to shape the nation’s political future, suggests a new [commentary](https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/M16-2470) published in _Annals of Internal Medicine_. Despite the government’s huge influence on health care, doctors vote 9% less than the general population. They’re 22% less likely to cast ballots than lawyers, another group of highly educated professionals. “If you look back at the history of the medical profession, there’s the sense that physicians are leaders in their community, and people historically looked up to doctors around broad community issues,” says Dr. David Grande, assistant professor of medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and co-author of the article. But that’s not the case anymore. Their reputation eroded, many experts believe, as they got [less time with patients](http://time.com/4383979/doctor-burnout-electronic-health-records/?iid=sr-link1) and more and more [burned out](http://time.com/4012840/doctors-on-life-support/?iid=sr-link3). Physicians give all kinds of reasons for why they don’t cast their ballots in what Grande calls “the most basic form of public participation.” Often, they don’t have time, or they’re too consumed by work to worry about the world beyond hospital walls. They also might be less engaged in general than other Americans. Physicians volunteer less often than other highly educated and well-compensated people, Grande writes. Just as troubling is the possibility that some physicians might not know much more than the rest of us when it comes to the inner workings of healthcare. A recent poll found that 40% of graduating medical students thought they didn’t learn enough about health policy. Fortunately, doctors are susceptible to the same psychological tricks as the rest of us, even on Election Day. “There are a lot of ways in which our behavior is influenced by the people around us, and campaigns have figured this out,” Grande says. “It makes people more likely to vote if their friends voted.” Medical schools, hospitals and other health care employers should encourage voting by making it more visible and sharing information about early voting. You, too, can play a part on Election Day if you’re visiting the doctor. 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