Within this issue of the Journal of Patient-Centered Research and Reviews (JPCRR), a brief report authored by Leung and colleagues describes a cross-sectional survey of inpatients and their treating physicians in regard to length of clinic visits. This study found no association between physician burnout and the amount of time patients perceived the physician spent with them at the bedside.1 For me, a primary care physician who has certainly experienced time pressures when seeing inpatients and outpatients,2,3 the key word here is “perceived.”
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