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Originally Posted by Platapus
Considering that if he is like my GP, he will only see each patient for about 15 minutes max. At $55.00 per patient, if he can keep the waiting room filled that is $220.00 per hour.
And that does not include the kickbacks he gets from tests, prescriptions, and the stuff they push to sell you.
Not exactly poverty wages.
Forgive me for not crying a river for this guy.
It is the PAs and the NPs that collect the data, document the information, and perform the treatment. The doctor pops his head in the examination room for a few moments and gives out with the highly educated, highly trained medical council -- "let's try this drug. See me in three weeks and we can try something else".
Gee 8 years of medical school and I get "let's try this drug'?  |
YMMV I guess. I've always been very happy with my GP. Very consultative, makes an effort to make sure I understand what's happening. But the fact is that he invested just as much time, energy, and money into his medical career (and any medical career requires gobs and gobs of that stuff) as say an orthopaedic surgeon. And makes half as much money while working more hours. If he wanted to make more money, his incentive would be to get people in and out the door as fast as possible and prescribe tons of drugs from drug companies that have bribed him enough. But my GP clearly hasn't gone this route.
I don't think my GP should make more money, I just think other specialities should make less to make sure GP will always attract a good amount of young doctors.
PS: I actually listened to a radio program about this a month ago. Here it is if you have any interest in it:
http://www.opb.org/thinkoutloud/show...-in-the-house/
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