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I think the main issue with doctors is they only give each patient a few minutes of their time. There's not much "deep work" in the medical field.
by HPsquared 2y ago
I think the main issue with doctors is they only give each patient a few minutes of their time. There's not much "deep work" in the medical field.
- smallerfish 2y agoYou really need to be your own advocate to get thorough treatment for anything non-routine from many primary care physicians.
- rqtwteye 2y agoThat’s my theory. They are good at obvious things but if something is a little tricky nobody puts the time in to figure it out. And nobody talks to each other. I always read about “care teams” but I have never seen such a thing.
- coliveira 2y agoThere are care teams at specialized and high cost situations, main examples being a major surgery to treat well understood condition. But for normal folks living with non life threatening conditions, this is almost impossible to find unless you're very rich.
- freeopinion 2y agoIt's interesting to characterize this as an issue. If 20% effort can solve 80% of the problems... Then there are the 5% of problems that could be solved with 20% effort, but there is enough money in it to convince the patient to pay for more attention even if they don't need it. Let's hope that 80% of doctors don't gravitate to the 1% of patients that can afford to pay for exclusivity. People with enough money to see 10 different specialists in search of a satisfying answer are probably already moving outside of the treadmill medicine realm.
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