WSJ Health Blog: “Certainly, any doc (or anyone else, for that matter) who is not getting paid by the hour is likely to do some uncompensated work. But the issue does seem pretty compelling in the case of primary care docs, who work in a payment system that tends to favor procedure-oriented specialties.”
"Sometimes I wonder whether I want to keep doing this"
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