According to medical guidelines, your doctor needs a 27-hour workday

Some doctors say that however reasonable guidelines may seem, their cumulative burden causes “constant frustration” to medical practice.

A team of doctors wrote a study last year for the Journal of General Internal Medicine which suggested that if an American doctor followed all of the guidelines for preventive, chronic and acute disease care issued by well-known medical groups, it would require nearly 27 hours per day.

Guidelines have become “a constant frustration,” said Dr. Minna Johansson, a general practitioner in Uddevalla, Sweden, who also directs the Global Center for Sustainable Healthcare at the University of Gothenburg. “A lot of guidelines may seem reasonable when considered in isolation, but the cumulative burden of all guideline recommendations combined is absurd.”

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Source: New York Times, 14 February 2022