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Do Doctors Spend Enough Time with Patients?

Do Doctors Spend Enough Time with Patients? (0:30)

Doctors don't always spend enough time with each patient because of the fast-paced nature of today's medicine. In this video, Dr. Weil explains why spending more time with a patient is good for the patient's health— and the doctor.

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This is a problem both for doctors and patients first because in order to practice medicine effectively, I think you have to know what makes a person tick you have to get to know a person, and also that interaction is a source of great emotional reward to practitioners, and it's disappearance in this age of for profit medicine and managed care I think has made everybody really not only has undermined the effectiveness medicine but I think it's made the practice of medicine very unsatisfying.