No.1 Best State For Doctors: Mississippi To develop this list, personal finance site WalletHub considered factors under the headings "Opportunity and Competition" and "Medical Quality," including physicians' mean annual wages, monthly starting salaries, number of hospitals per 100,000 residents, percentage of the population with health insurance, future elderly population, malpractice awards per capita, and " the number of state medical boards’ serious disciplinary actions per 1,000 physicians." Data was gathered from the U.S. Census Bureau, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Department of Health and Human Services, Missouri Economic Research & Information Center, Citizen.org (of non-profit advocacy group Public Citizen), and medical malpractice insurer Diederich Healthcare. No. 2 Best State For Doctors: Iowa No. 3 Best State For Doctors: Minnesota No. 4 Best State For Doctors: North Dakota No. 5 Best State For Doctors: Idaho No. 6 Best State For Doctors: Texas No. 7 Best State For Doctors: Kansas No. 8 Best State For Doctors: Wisconsin No. 9 Best State For Doctors: Tennessee No. 10 Best State For Doctors: Alabama No. 1 Worst State For Doctors: Washington, D.C. No. 2 Worst State For Doctors: New York No. 3 Worst State For Doctors: Rhode Island No. 4 Worst State For Doctors: Maryland No. 5 Worst State For Doctors: Connecticut No. 6 Worst State For Doctors: New Jersey No. 7 Worst State For Doctors: Vermont No. 8 Worst State For Doctors: Massachusetts No. 9 Worst State For Doctors: Delaware No. 10 Worst State For Doctors: Maine Source
