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a beautiful system would allow dr’s to get paid by the hour. Imagine a world where I can charge my pt’s in six minute increments. Let’s say $35 every six minutes even when they are late. Then I could compensate those waiting in the waiting room . Sounds fair right ?
Instead I can’t even begin to imagine the amount of money I’d be worth . Because I don’t get paid for time. I can spend an hour with a patient taking a complex medical history, or giving treatment advice and answering unending questions from patients that come with long sheets of paper filled with imaginary concerns and symptoms. Or the patient who is depressed and just needs someone to listen for a few minutes. That’s my day, I help people. And I don’t get paid for a lot of itit. But that’s why I went into the medical field instead of becoming a lawyer.