Newsflash: PCPs juggle multiple problems during office visits

More studies of the obvious:

“We documented that on average there are six topics that were discussed, and there is not a lot of time allocated to these topics,” said lead study author Ming Tai-Seale, Ph.D.

During the doctor-patient interactions, the topic that received the most talk time was typically discussed for about five minutes. The remaining issues typically received about a minute of discussion each, found the study in the latest online issue of the journal Health Services Research.