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Originally Posted by fotze
If you are aware of this then you are at fault if you do nothing. Doctors have no problem telling you that they are booked for the day. When you are in the room wiuth that doctor they are obligated to do the job right. That's all. I am sure they are rammed full. If they are not going to do the job right, then they should refuse to see those patients (then this gets bigger and the politicians dedicate more resources) or at leaat tell the patient they are not doing a thorough job, that is at least owed to the patient. It burdens the system more when the check up is done half-arsed and you end up having to see 5 doctors to get to the right conclusion.
another problem is the public doesn't know how the system works either. Are doctors required to see 800 patients a day. I have no idea. I think doctors need to be treated a lot less than crap when they first start interning. Why take a badly needed resource and pretty much rape them for the first 5 years of their career. That's just stupid.
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Doctors do not have a required number of patients they have to see per day. For each patient visit, family doctors are only permitted to bill for one problem with that patient. They do have a responsibility to do the right job but what incentive does a doctor have to spend 1 hour with a patient addressing 6-7 problems knowing that they can only bill for one of those problems. So essentially after addressing one problem they are working for free. So will most doctors ensure that you have nothing wrong with you that would be life threatening? Sure. But to expect a doctor to spend a lot of time on each patient is not realistic.
I agree with you that the doctors are treated like crap when they start interning. However, this will take a long time to change because you have the mentality from the training docs that "well I went through this so you should have to as well." This is a very similar mentality in a lot of the professions, ie. Chartered Accountants, Lawyers, etc.