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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Hit reply too fast. Do you see how this makes zero sense? You want them to know better than you but you don’t want to do what they tell you to do.

Also if they take all those phone calls they’ll never have time to actually see patients in person and also they won’t get paid. Sucks but true. Your quick phone call, multiplied by 15, plus the documentation required for it, would take up hours. [/quote]

There's A LOT of real estate between "makes $50k a year" and "makes $600k a year". Doctors could stop over-scheduling, spend more time with patients, take phone calls, work on bedside manner and still make what any American would consider a lavish sum. Nobody is asking them to impoverish themselves, just maybe make a couple thou less a day.[/quote]

Doctors have zero control over their own schedules. Unless they own their own practice, in which case they are struggling to make ends meet thanks to the insurance industry paying Pennies on the dollar.[/quote]

It looks a lot more than pennies on the dollar when I get my statements. They get hundreds for a few minutes of face time.[/quote]

What percentage of what is billed do you think goes just to pay overhead to run the clinic, straight off the top, not even including malpractice insurance, maintaining licensure, etc. -- just the lights on, employees paid, and utilities?[/quote]

This is true of most businesses with rent, salaries, insurance, material and utility costs. The patient is not paying pennies though. They are paying hundreds and thousands of dollars a year. [/quote]

Right. So what percentage do you think thatis, for a medical practice?[/quote]

How can I tell? Are you in Manhatten or Front Royal, which affects rent and salaries. What kind of doctor are you - OB-Gyn or dermatologist or PCP, which will impact insurance premiums. Are you a concierge doctor or part of a hospital system? How many support staff do you employ?  How long do you spend with each patient?

I don't know the answer to these operating cost questions for my tree service or local supermarket either. Why don't you provide these figures to us?[/quote]

So you're judging the cost and assigning salary, without any sense of what the average overhead is for a basic medical practice? Okay.

Sure, if you want to know, I'll pull it for you. I'm still interested in what your guess would be. I think it would be informative. FYI, it's different for medicine than most small businesses, for various reasons of specific responsibilities, liabilities, and constraints. [/quote]

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