How many patients can one doctor take care of per year? How many people can one farmer feed a year? (lemmy.world)

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Was just thinking that there should be doctor clubs, where a bunch of people pool their money to hire a dedicated general physician. Or to have a shared tailor, or group cafeteria, or whatever.

The ratio of people covered to specialists would probably determine whether it's feasible. You'd want the specialist to still get paid a healthy (and guaranteed) salary and to have a more satisfying relationship with customers. And the members of the club to get better service / product than they would otherwise with middlemen taking a cut.

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[-] moistclump@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

No one is answering your question.

I live in a town of about 5,000 people. General practitioners near me make about $500,000. If everyone was forced to pay in that would be $100 each a year.

But then there would be a lease and an administrator doing the appointments etc.. Hopefully the administrator can handle the payments too. Lease $5,000 a month and administrator $5,000 a month. Ooh medical supplies. I’m not sure. $2,500/ month? Still only adds $30/year for those 5,000 people.

1 practitioner would be available on average 20 minutes per person a year (assuming 4 weeks off and 40 hour work weeks) but I bet there’s around 500 people who take up most of the doctors time with their stuff and then thousands that only see them once every couple of years.

To scale up would add another $100 a year per doctor per resident of this 5,000 person team and probably up to 3 or so doctors the other costs wouldn’t change significantly.

It’s an interesting thought. Thanks for asking!

[-] perviouslyiner@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_and_dependencies_by_number_of_physicians

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_total_health_expenditure_per_capita

Consensus seems to be around 40 doctors per 10,000 population, costing about $6000 per person per year (about half of what the USA currently spends)

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