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More doctors are charging fees to respond to patient messages

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Re: More doctors are charging fees to respond to patient messages

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The hospitals are poorly run. Please hate your hospitals management more. Or if you are a good manager, convince some friends to run a hospital. Imagine 10 appointments a day, 30 mins each. You have to write /everything/ down the patient tells you. You often have to go over the 30mins because some patients need it. You need to follow up to order extra tests, you need to occasionally google something. You skip lunch o…

Oh boo fuckin hoo. TLDR- it's hard to operate a properly functioning healthcare practice when everything is controlled and mandated by the insurance companies. Who demand that patients take no more than 7 actual minutes of "doctor time" and must be whisked out the door with lots of prescriptions for expensive medications that guarantee they (a) will not be cured and (b) will continue to provide a steady revenue stream to big pharma which helps to subsidize the whole upside down dystopian health pyramid that is the US healthcare system.

Re: More doctors are charging fees to respond to patient messages

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Is it greed? Is it all doctos tacitly agreeing to this so they can get bigger paychecks?

If you scour my archives, I once made a heavily down voted post about how 'doctors were evil'. It was obviously meant to be provocative and tongue in cheek. But all medical boards are exclusively run by doctors, so you have to assign blame to the profession for doctor NIMBYism. Imo, it's another case of : "you can't get someone to understand something, if their wealth depends on them not understanding it."

Doctors like money like everyone

You can see a lot more patients when you have less busywork. You can also be more caring and thoughtful when you’re focused on the patient and not the chart. A lot of patients give misleading answers (I don’t eat much! How are you 50lbs+ since last visit?)

More doctors will help. But management runs the hospitals so poorly they can’t run more resident spots!

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