why is it so difficult to get an appointment with your doctor?
Tuesday, March 9th, 2010dr. gurley demonstrates a very interesting point.
If you’re one of 2500 patients who have been assigned to the same doctor (yep, that’s right, 2500 - that’s average), and that doctor works 50 weeks a year, with a very strict limit of only 10 federal holidays, and the office closed two days a week, with 2 hours a day of admin time, then you “own” only (50 weeks X 40 hours, minus 10 X 8 hours, minus 50 weeks X 8 hours; divided by 2500) 36 minutes a year of your doctor’s time.
that’s for the year. and it doesn’t factor in the sicker patients a doctor can have with multiple problems which will increase their visit time but decrease the time available for yours.
that’s why i don’t want to do traditional medicine. that’s why i want to open my own practice following the Ideal Medical Practice model and use Hello Health as my EMR. it will give my patients 30 minutes to an hour PER VISIT.
Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/gurley/detail?blogid=114&entry_id=41698#ixzz0hcJyGtPv
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