According to the report, 43 percent of ophthalmologists spend between 30 hours and 40 hours per week seeing patients. Another 24 percent spend between 41 hours and 45 hours seeing patients per week. A Journal of the American Medical Association report shows there was relatively littler change in hours spent seeing patients per week from 1977 to 1997, but since then the hours have declined slightly.
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