Do you sometimes feel like General Practitioner Doctors are useless?
It takes sometimes 5-10 visits for them to figure out what’s going on, meanwhile bills keep piling up!!
They’ll be replaced by AI soon.
They’ll be replaced by AI soon.
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Graylight · 51-55, F
Physicians often schedule four patients every 15 minutes. That's 16 patients an hour over, say, and eight hour day. Allowing for an average after factoring in cancellations and last-minute appointments, that's 128 patients a day for a single physician. 128 sets of symptoms, questions, histories, diagnoses and treatment plans. Plus notes.
It's really not humanly possible the way it's set up, so the GP or PCP has become little more than a supplier of antibiotics and a referral service to more, better-specialized doctors. It's just casting a wide net over all possible clients. Don't' knock the PCP - they're physicians, same as anyone else and a little special because they have to know so much about all systems - they simply work with their hands tied these days.
It's really not humanly possible the way it's set up, so the GP or PCP has become little more than a supplier of antibiotics and a referral service to more, better-specialized doctors. It's just casting a wide net over all possible clients. Don't' knock the PCP - they're physicians, same as anyone else and a little special because they have to know so much about all systems - they simply work with their hands tied these days.
SomeMichGuy · M
@Graylight That might be what Kaiser-Permanente tried to do, but I have not seen this with private practice physicians or most others.
Graylight · 51-55, F
@SomeMichGuy I've personally witnessed it in several.
SomeMichGuy · M
@Graylight I saw Kaiser try to do this. I didn't let it happen.