I have NEVER had a physician spend more than 6 minutes with me. I don't even get eye contact in that 6 minutes. 6 minutes of condescending-ass "I'm trying to talk slowly so you can try to understand," followed by a bill for $1,400. I have always much preferred to deal with RNs, LPNs and MAs. They know just as much, communicate a million times better, and work just as hard if not harder. If anyone in the medical field deserves that $100,000 -a-year American dream, its them over physicians, any day.