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I remember in 2017 I went to my GP in the US for a physical + bloodwork, and when I said what I was there for, the doctor recoiled a bit – because allegedly I had been booked for a 15 minute slot, rather than 30. And there was no way to do everything in 15 minutes.

I had no idea such a thing even existed. Sure, there's a schedule to appointments and you can't just take all the doctor's time, but I had never ever heard of anything like that. As if at 15:01 into the examination, we'd both turn into pumpkins or something. Or the idea that really any health problem someone had could be observed, diagnosed, and treated in a quarter hour.

Turns out that the hospital system she worked in had been aquired by nameless-faceless-health-conglomerate, and that's how they (and many other) hospitals worked now. Everything was KPIs, everything was maximizing people-in-and-out every day.

When I asked the doctor how she felt about it she obviously tried to be as democratic as possible about voicing her displeasure at the new system. Annnnnnd about 6 months after that, she transferred to working at a senior living facility where she just gets to chat with elderly people all day, refill their prescriptions, and make sure they stay healthy.