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I've known a few nurses, doctors, and PTs who expressed exactly this sentiment. It's such a stupid problem, too. There's no reason they should have such an onerous burden, and yet they all do.

One of the PTs I know spent at least as much time filling out paperwork as he did with patients. This was partly due to the volume of paperwork required by govt / insurance / lawyers / whatever, and partly due to absolutely awful software.




I got badly injured. Everyone refused to do paperwork. Every doctor said it was every others job. I had great disability coverage. (In theory)

Result. Spent 2 years trying to work when I couldn’t get out of bed and was mostly blind.

All because doctors didn’t want to spend 20 minutes filling out forms. Plus Disability companies lie constantly until various deadlines pass.


Obviously the doctors should have done the paperwork and you shouldn’t have had to deal with that. But it seems like the root cause isn’t that doctors don’t want to do paperwork, it’s that the insurance is introducing too much paperwork.




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