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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Cut back to 24hr a week now that med school loans are paid off. Enjoying having a life again. I’d work 40 hours if patients weren’t so miserable and management didn’t try to cram my schedule way past full.[/quote]

What makes the patients miserable? I mean, specifics in terms of behavior thet shouldn't be doing. [/quote]

Just angry about wait times in the office (that I can’t control), having a lot of things that they “insist “ on being tested for despite it not being relevant for their symptoms - and some tests will yield a lot of false positives if you test everyone for them. It sounds wrong- like, “if I test positive, and the test is 99% accurate, then it’s a real positive!” but google the Bayes Theorum and you’ll see that’s actually wrong. But patients INSIST on testing for things. And it muddies the waters and makes my job harder and doesn’t make their symptoms go away because now they’re convinced they have, for example, chronic Lyme disease and they won’t consider that their fatigue is actually probably from sleep apnea or depression. Anyways I’m ranting. [/quote]

None of that sounds miserable to me. It sounds human. It sounds like humans who are struggling and are asking doctors to help them feel better. [/quote]

If you saw 16 patients like that each day, every day, you would definitely find it miserable.[/quote]

That's 30 minutes a patient and usually a nurse and other staff do most of the paperwork.[/quote]

i have NEVER seen a doctor for 30 minutes.  i have waited in a room for an hour or the waiting room for an hour.  the actual seeing the doctor takes probably 5 minutes!  even for my mom with cancer.  appointments take all day but the actual time you see the doctor is minimal, maybe 10 minutes.
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You think doctors are only seeing patients all day?[/quote]

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