Assumptions:
200,000 Primary Care Physicians (family physicians and general practitioners, general internists, general pediatricians, and geriatricians)
50 hour work weeks
50 weeks worked per year
330,000,000 people in the United States
200,000(Physicians)50(Hours/week)50(weeks/year)/330,000,000(patients) = 1.5 hours/patient
So if every single person in the United States were to equally share the physicians work hours, they would only get 1.5 hours each. Seems like not enough physicians to me. Also if you do the equation with all 1,000,000 physicians (every kind of specialty), you get 7.5 hours/patient/year.
What are your thoughts on this number? I'm planning on going into family practice myself and the norm of <30 minutes per patient encounter just seems so low.
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