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Bucking the medical business

Bend doctor drops out of insurance-based medicine

Visit a typical primary care doctor - an internist or a family practitioner - these days, and this is what you are likely to get:

A short visit.

Nationwide, the mean length of a typical doctor's visit is 18.7 minutes, according to the National Center for Health Statistics. That means that half....

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