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Patient wait times vs time spent with the physician

A study suggests that time spent with the physician has a stronger impact:

The time spent with the physician is a stronger predictor of patient satisfaction than is the time spent in the waiting room. These results suggest that shortening patient waiting times at the expense of time spent with the patient to improve patient satisfaction scores would be counter-productive.

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