Family Medicine Doctors See Too Many Patients Daily
10 posts across 4 communities in the last 90 days; 50% from r/FamilyMedicine.
“Background: I have about 6 years experience in private practice outpatient. I’m considering switching to home health to try something different. Tired of seeing 15+ patients a day. Also need to make more money to assist with paying off some family medical debt. Looking for…”
“how many patients do you typically have on call at a time [re: Remote companies hiring?]”
“How many providers does one MA room for in your practice? And how many patients in a day? We’re 2 providers seeing about 50 patients a day total, with 1 MA and it seems he is getting overwhelmed. No scribing involved. Edited to say this is private practice and we are not…”
Family medicine doctors are finding it difficult to manage a high patient load, often averaging 22-26 patients per day within an 8-5 workday. This discrepancy between advertised patient numbers during job interviews and the reality of daily practice is causing concern.
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“how many patients do you typically have on call at a time [re: Remote companies hiring?]”
“How many providers does one MA room for in your practice? And how many patients in a day? We’re 2 providers seeing about 50 patients a day total, with 1 MA and it seems he is getting overwhelmed. No scribing involved. Edited to say this is private practice and we are not hospital owned. submitted by /u/WearLonely3755 [link] [comments]”
“I have been working in adult primary care for almost two years now. Initially we had a template that helped create a reasonable workflow (slots for new patients, acute visits, follow up, etc). Recently our health system has moved to open scheduling (patients can schedule themselves on mychart) so basically any type of visit can be scheduled anywhere as long as slot is large enough (we do 15 min follow up and 30 minutes for APE and new patients). Our system has been trying to push people to sched”
“How many patients do you see in a 10 hour work day? Management wants to me to see 18. At least 2 evals/day. submitted by /u/Interesting-Task-123 [link] [comments]”
“When my MA rooms patients, patients will give her a list of nine things that need to be addressed. As you all can assume, this visit is typically for a chronic condition follow up where we have 5+ things to address. MA is great at saying “okay we have you down for following up on t, u, v, w, x, y and z. We can schedule another appointment to start to address new concerns or address some of these today and reschedule chronic condition follow up. “ Then patients day “no we can just do it all today”
“My job is telling us that we should be making up missed visits with patients but I’m wondering if that is even allowed? For example if we have someone 2x/week & they are only seen 1x, they are telling us to do 3x the following week. This seems to go against frequency set in POC & clinical reasoning & just seems like a money grab. Anyone do this? submitted by /u/cameleon1213 [link] [comments]”
“I wanna know if it's normal for the doctor to come in for 5 seconds? submitted by /u/realityTVho [link] [comments]”
“Background: I have about 6 years experience in private practice outpatient. I’m considering switching to home health to try something different. Tired of seeing 15+ patients a day. Also need to make more money to assist with paying off some family medical debt. Looking for advice for what to look out for when searching for a home health job, as I have no home health experience. Also, if anyone has switched from outpatient to home health, was it a good move? Do you regret the switch at all? Any a”
“FM docs in the house. when you were interviewing for FM jobs with daily number of patients averaging of 22-26, did you actually start seeing that number when you started the job? Then, how easy is it to see that number of patients working 8-5 daily? I’m currently searching and seeing such number flying around and just wondering. submitted by /u/ApprehensivePlant395 [link] [comments]”
“How do you guys manage your inbox messages from patients but more often family members / POAs that want an MD callback to review super complicated hospitalizations? I want to be patient serving first but....I don't have time for this. I typically ask my nurse to let them know they need to schedule a hospital DC visit which sometimes works out ok but sometimes makes people upset. submitted by /u/2012Tribe [link] [comments]”