Enjoy Your Day As The Others Do Admin Work
I am just going to quote this physician who posted this on X. His name is :
John Asghar MD @JahangirAsgha10
60 hours. That’s how much administrative work is generated per U.S. physician, every single week. Roughly 9 hours by the doctor, and 50+ hours by staff — just to keep up with the bureaucracy. That’s 60 hours not directed toward patient care. No other developed country comes close. This isn’t about inefficiency. It’s about the system we’ve built — one where care takes a back seat to compliance. I’ve posted before about the cost of this in dollars and cents. But this is the cost in time — and it’s just as damning. It’s the result of a regulatory and billing framework that demands documentation over outcomes, and forces practices to build entire teams just to stay compliant. If you’re in private practice, you know the impact firsthand. There’s no subsidy. No backup. Just lost time, lost margins, and burned-out teams. This isn’t a workforce problem. This is a policy failure — designed, implemented, and protected at the highest levels. And it’s killing the practice of medicine.
I could not find his sources in the post, but it seems right. Oh, and there is this:
DPC blows this away and physicians NEED to leave the system. That being said, I think we need to do a study to delineate the average amount of admin time Direct Primary Care docs do in a week. I can try it here on DPC News. Should I just ask people to add it up and then send the number to me? Is there another way?
