You’re being downvoted because that’s baked into the parent comment; the suggested solution is to increase the supply of doctors.

The parent comment doesn’t state it explicitly, and suggests it’s the managements fault.

One of the problems is that regulations require MD oversight but not necesssrily performing all operations. That’s a good thing but forces them into a role where they hover for a few minutes then get rushed to the next supervision activity.

So there are lots of dials to play with in addition to supply.

In my experience in the clinic, the attendings are spending an incredible amount of their time doing busywork required by management instead of actually caring for patients.

Interesting. If you had to weight it towards legal compliance or productivity surveillance which would you say?

Maybe letting them see patients? I feel like this is a false dichotomy. I guess legal compliance of I had to choose, so it wouldn't lead to insane numbers of patients per hour

Let me clarify. I’m asking what you think the bulk of the existing busy work consists of

Oh, sorry, I see what you mean now. I think it's legal compliance. Maybe less legal compliance as much as hospital policy compliance though