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The median physician salary is $217,000, and the average family doctor oversees a panel of 2,300 people, who see him or her about 20 minutes, two or three times
by Digory 7y ago
The median physician salary is $217,000, and the average family doctor oversees a panel of 2,300 people, who see him or her about 20 minutes, two or three times a year.
There is not a sustainable system where workers pay taxes sufficient to afford a specially trained nurse or doctor for full time, personal care for everyone who could benefit from it.
If we don’t have social networks that shoulder burdens at what looks like an economic loss, there’s not enough paid care to go around at the levels of empathy we want.
- WillPostForFood 7y agoThe 2300 number is commonly cited, but more recent surveys suggest average panel size is much lower. Recent studies of various practice settings in the United States and abroad found current panel sizes ranging from 1200 to 1900 patients per physician. For example, Kaiser Permanente reported a mean per-physician panel size of 1751 patients, and Group Health Cooperative of Puget Sound reported a panel size of 1490 patients per physician.18 The US Department of Veterans Affairs reported a mean panel size of 1266 patients per full-time equivalent physician.19 One study in Canada found a panel size of 1400 patients per PCP.20 A study in Denmark found a maximum level of 1600 patients per physician,21 and a study in England found 2033 patients per solo physician.22 https://www.jabfm.org/content/29/4/496.full https://www.jabfm.org/content/29/4/496.full