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Wait Times: Direct Primary Care vs. Traditional Primary Care

The Direct Doctors Difference

In 2019 we discussed the basics of why patients wait a long time to hear back, get through on the phone lines, or be seen with a primary care doctor. ​ As more primary care physicians become “burned out” with the day to day grind of a typical primary care practice.

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The Promise and Pitfalls of AI in Medicine: Guest Bob Wachter

GeriPal

And the actors were blinded to whether this was a primary care doctor or a chat bot answering them. The results were that the chat bots got the diagnoses right and had an escalation strategy that was better than the doctors, as judged by blinded specialists reading the transcripts. They had no idea. Bob: Yeah.