OPINION: Operating at a loss: Our health care system depends on physicians donating their time

Our health care system depends on physicians donating their time - STAT I’m optimistic that there are ways for individuals to practice medicine that are more respectful to both physicians and their patients. Jennifer Adaeze Okwerekwu STAT

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our health care system actually depends on doctors’ professionalism and donated time. This trend was noted in a 2016 study published in in the Annals of Internal Medicine, which found that doctors — ranging in specialty from internal medicine, to cardiology, to orthopedic surgery — spend up to two hours of personal time each night completing tasks integral to patient care....