• intensely_human
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    8 months ago

    Maybe it’s not true in the case of doctors, but for other businesses, the only reason you’re able to have this business is because I’m here, paying money.

    You hit the nail on the head there. Other businesses exist because they won your business in competition with other businesses. A doctor’s office exists because they got permission from the state to operate.

    The incentive structure is different, leading to different strategies being used to stay open

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      8 months ago

      In the US at least you could easily find a different doctor, unless you live in a rural area with no other doctors in it

      I left two different practices because of schedule fiascos and stuck with the 3rd because they never make me wait.