Thanks to modern health insurance most clinics can’t make any money if doctors spend more than 15 minutes with each patient.
Given all the minutia they now need to collect thanks to the Electronic Records Act (minutia meant to control your habits, not aid in diagnosing your ailments) most of that 15 minutes is burned with record keeping. The doctor is lucky to get 5 minutes to actually “listen and understand” before giving you a perrscription and hollering, “NEXT!”
I know...HMOs. I hate them. But this doctor I’m seeing today is more concerned with sending me for TESTS. He doesn’t want to hear what I have to say, and that isn’t a good atmosphere for me, as I have a tendency to have elevated BP with him. Which he rags on me for.
So I’m just taking a piece of paper on which I have written MY agenda for the visit, and when he reads it, he can do what I ask or not. If not, I will see another doctor.