Across countries, it varies greatly how many patients a General Practitioner sees each day. Here in Britain, the British Medical Association has threatened to limit the number of patients seen per day to 25. For our friends in many other countries, that will sound ridiculous. British doctors are often brief because they have so much to get through and you know how patients complain when you run late.
That doesn’t invalidate the philosophy. However, I’d say that applying it across the country will require a change to how we cram GPs’ schedules full of patients.
To not support innumerable questions from a patient is alright but perhaps a fixed number of questions could be addressed? It is always better to fix the number of patients per day instead of dismissing their curiosity (perhaps limited) and totally discarding them in the disguise of medical jargons.
Across countries, it varies greatly how many patients a General Practitioner sees each day. Here in Britain, the British Medical Association has threatened to limit the number of patients seen per day to 25. For our friends in many other countries, that will sound ridiculous. British doctors are often brief because they have so much to get through and you know how patients complain when you run late.
That doesn’t invalidate the philosophy. However, I’d say that applying it across the country will require a change to how we cram GPs’ schedules full of patients.
To not support innumerable questions from a patient is alright but perhaps a fixed number of questions could be addressed? It is always better to fix the number of patients per day instead of dismissing their curiosity (perhaps limited) and totally discarding them in the disguise of medical jargons.