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A doctor sees 500+ patients a month?!

JEDI

JEDI

Lifer
saw my doc, who is always booked.

He saw me for 20min.

doing the math, 8hrs/day x 60min / 20 = 24patients/day.

At 22days/month, thats 24x22 = 528 patients/month 😱

Lets go further into his $:
assume insurance + copay = $50/patient.

$50 x 528 = ~$26k/month = ~$300k/yr 😱
 
This is shocking to you?

A good doctor can make well north of 300k/year.....
 
I've read somewhere that factory work for doctors, they suffer alot of burnout and can't do it forever
 
I had to book a dermatologist appointment a month before the appointment actually occurred recently because the doctors' schedules were so busy. And this is a place with 8-10 dermatologists.
 
A great many (false) assumptions.

By this logic; a mechanic does oil changes, charges $30/change, does 3 changes an hour = 90/hour = 720/day = 17280/month = 207360/year. Therefore a mechanic doing oil changes makes 207k/year.
 
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Capt Caveman said:
The OP is a moron. Now, add in his costs - employees, insurance, office space, equipment, etc... He's not making much and why many doctors aren't interested in being general practitioners and pcp's.
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PCP and general doctors are often skipped, thanks to the vast info on internet to patients. They generally skip right to specialists rather than meeting this jack-of-all-trades retard that would tell you obvious things anyway.

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Malpractice insurance costs are the #1 expense of doctors. They are not left with much after that & all other costs, especially for low-end doctors like PCPs.

OP, use some brain...
 
You are lucky, my doctor triple books, every time I go there I have to wait 3+ hours. People are always walking out and if you do stick around and finally see him he rushes you.
 
Zeze said:
Sorry I'm bitter because of useless PCPs that waste my precious vacation time and utterly doing nothing but to refer to others.
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Either you have a bad PCP, or your expectations are not aligned with reality. Either way, a gross generalization is, well, foolish.
 
Family Docs make 100K + (like ones at Kaiser start there)
Surgeons make 300K+ to infinity
Radiologists 300K+
etc...

Docs make $$$
 
Ns1 said:
post up their student loan amounts too.
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and their 20s. if you go right from high school to UG to Med school to residency...they'll be 30, give or take a year depending on the speciality, when they're out of residency and they start earning more than the equivalent of $12-14/hr or whatever a resident makes.
 
The best part is, he can be COMPLETELY wrong and cost you a bunch of money along the way and as long as he doesn't cause harm, you have to pay.
 
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