If doctors don’t have time to spend with their patients, why is the average patient visit getting longer?

Food for thought.

But as it turns out, the amount of time primary-care docs spend with each patient actually increased a little bit between 1997 and 2005, according to an analysis published today in the Archives of Internal Medicine.

Source: Primary Care Doctor Visits, 1997-2005 – Health Blog – WSJ

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