This is generally going to be less a doctor problem and more a hospital admin problem.
Hospitals try and employ the fewest doctors possible to save money, they schedule doctors so they have 5 minutes per patient, and they pack the schedules as dense as possible to maximize the number of cases a doctor is handling.
Any disruption here causes a delay. A patient showing up late, having questions, or the doctor needing to shit. It all adds up to the fail system.
There are simple fixes here like extending the doctors appointments beyond the average required time and hiring now doctors, but that costs money and doesn’t optimize profit for the shareholders.
Agree with your comment. Most medical practices are OWNED by a hospital system. The doctor is just an employee being directed to follow a patient schedule that they did not set up
This is generally going to be less a doctor problem and more a hospital admin problem.
Hospitals try and employ the fewest doctors possible to save money, they schedule doctors so they have 5 minutes per patient, and they pack the schedules as dense as possible to maximize the number of cases a doctor is handling.
Any disruption here causes a delay. A patient showing up late, having questions, or the doctor needing to shit. It all adds up to the fail system.
There are simple fixes here like extending the doctors appointments beyond the average required time and hiring now doctors, but that costs money and doesn’t optimize profit for the shareholders.
Agree with your comment. Most medical practices are OWNED by a hospital system. The doctor is just an employee being directed to follow a patient schedule that they did not set up
Yeah the EMR and data driven quality requirements of Obamacare made it almost impossible for a single doctor practice. The costs are just too high.
Add in hospitals wanting a feeder network of patients that can be directed to “their” hospital.
And you have hospitals gobbling up every practice they could in the 2010s.