There will be 36 patient facing hours with 4 hours of administrative work throughout the week seeing around 15-20 patients per day. They are essentially the only Primary Care providers in the community and currently have a 4-6 week wait time for new patients.
There is a lot of autonomy here as well and they do their best to accommodate everyone’s schedules as much as they can. They work as a team here and being a smaller community, they understand that certain things can arise, especially with family matters, and they are very flexible with their providers.
Physicians do take their own call, all by phone, but it is very quiet and non-disruptive. They do have an answering service that will take the first screen which does filter out a lot of patients. The physician who joined about 4 years ago told us she didn’t get a call for almost a full year. They also help each other out and cover for one another, when need be, usually when another provider is out on PTO or has some kind of personal emergency.