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In reply to the discussion: How Being a Doctor Became the Most Miserable Profession [View all]Warpy
(111,598 posts)The problem is that the MBAs and bean counters have done to doctors what they've done to the rest of us, put them on an assembly line that keeps speeding up, only the risks to doctors legally and emotionally are so damned high this sort of thing should be criminal.
Docs are lucky to spend 5-10 minutes with their patients, then another 15 minutes reviewing their labs and 5 minutes dictating the chart entry. Patients are left feeling shortchanged by a doc who won't stay and chat and the doc knows full well that staying and chatting for a few minutes turns up problems beyond the initial complaint.
MBAs and bean counters have made it nearly impossible to function at any level in medicine. The MBAs are the ones who really need to go. They're OK at running supermarket chains but utterly dismal at health care.