[avgDev]

The doctors are just cogs in a machine. The problem is that if your compensation is $200k-$1000k why would really want to tackle the issue.

Specialists make so much money they can hire a personal assistants to handle all the annoying things.

I know several pharmacists, one is highly intelligent and she is the only one who wants to get out of the field because healthcare in the US is toxic and profit driven.

[freeAgent]

Yeah, most of the time when patients send emails, they get responses from a nurse. At least at my wife's clinic, they do not always charge for emails. They only choose to charge when an email is asking something non-obvious or for the doctor to take some action that requires additional work/time outside of just reading and responding to an email.