Patients need more time with their physicians; Physicians need more time with their patients

This article comes from Great Britain and their wonderful NHS.  It is slightly less bad in the USA.  Electronic health records have worsened the problem because charting takes much longer. Many experts believe that inadequate time leads to diagnostic errors. Others (as the article suggests) note that shared decision making takes time, and too often we do not have adequate time to have those discussions. We waste resources trying to cram too many patients into the physicians day.  We cannot say this often enough.  This is not a doctor issue; this is a patient issue.  Patients suffer when we shorten their visits.  
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