Reply #68: I'm always struck by how many people there are

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For some reason every doctor's office seems to have at least eight women (they're always women for some reason) milling around in the office, presumably all to make appointments and fill out paperwork. Hospital nursing stations always seem to be full of people filling out paperwork of some kind. It takes ten minutes with an office lady to get the insurance organized for 30 seconds of blood drawing. Too few people in medicine are providing patient care and too many are filling out forms.