The average age of physician respondents was approximately 42, with
an average of 8 years seniority. A majority of physician respondents
in the study were male (59%), hospital employees (70%), specialists in
family/internal medicine or surgery (70%). The majority of the physician
respondents were educated in Israel (49%) or in the former Soviet Union
and Eastern European countries (44%). For the multivariate logistic
regression test we divided physicians into two groups, those educated at
Israeli schools of medicine and those educated abroad.