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From me talking to Doctors, it seems most of their job is handling records, contacting insurance, prior auth, talking to pharmacists, etc. This is despite having billing specialists and admins out the wazoo.

Also their care is pretty much completely decided by insurance. What surgeries they can perform, what medicine they can give, how much, what materials they can use for surgery, and on and on. Your doctor is practicing shockingly little medicine, your real doctor is thousands of pages of guidelines created by insurers and peer-to-peer doctors who you will never meet.



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