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Dr. Anderson is a family medicine physician. He drops into sojourn studios to discuss health care, mental health, direct primary care, Obamacare and more.

     - TLDR: "The number of physicians in the United States grew 150 percent between 1975 and 2010, roughly in keeping with population growth, while the number of healthcare administrators increased 3,200 percent for the same time period." 

2) https://www.statnews.com/2018/07/26/physicians-not-burning-out-they-are-suffering-moral-injury/

     - TLDR: In the following article written by Simon G. Talbot, M.D., a reconstructive plastic surgeon at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and associate professor of surgery at Harvard Medical School, on physician burn-out 

3) https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2254573/ 

     - TLDR: 17.4 minutes, the time a family doctor usually spends on each patient.

      - TLDR: "But could physicians feasibly take on more patients to reach the "standard" 2,500-patient panel? According to the analysis, no. The researchers suggested it would be nearly impossible to handle a panel size of 2,500 patients — a physician would have to work 21.7 hours per day to deliver comprehensive, quality care to a panel of that size."

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7) boonsborodirectprimarycare.com

8) https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/11/opinion/letters/doctors-burnout.html

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