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Regulation could help solve that. You shouldn’t see so many patients in a day unless you also double your working hours.

I’m surprised this was many years ago. Now this pressure exists because medical school is so expensive and people need to pay off their loans. Want to see improvements in care? Make medical school free / cheap.

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It's also extremely long. Assuming a 3 year residency the average Doctor doesn't even start practicing until 31.[1] So you've not just got a house's worth of debt without a house, you've also lost a decade to training.

I'd love improvements in care, but nobody is going to fix this problem. It's too lucrative for everyone else involved.

[1] https://averagedoctor.com/the-average-age-of-doctors-graduat...

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