Seven minutes with the "GP," plus all the office expenses. Look around, what is in the office that's free to the "GP"?
I'm looking at all my expenses as a business man. $432 an hour is a great gig. Not that one has customers 365/24/7 and works those hours. Still, I understand why I drive a Civic and my doctors drive 50K trucks.
BTW, I don't begrudge the price; however, I wish they'd cut me a break when I pay cash out of my HSA. And some do by giving free samples.
It's funny, concerning the topic on this thread, a few of my doctors decided to use a pollster to ask questions to better their customer service quotient. I think the patients all remarked about the staff being cold and indifferent (makes the waiting room so much more pleasurable) and the wait time. My urologist fired the dead weight. My GP made an attempt to paint and carpet the waiting room.