About 20,000 physicians were surveyed.
Four statistics:
1. Hours per week gastroenterologists spend seeing patients:
– Men: 44 hours
– Women: 42 hours
2. Hours per week gastroenterologists spend on paperwork and administration
– Less than five: 5 percent
– Five to nine: 17 percent
– 10 to 19: 47 percent
– 20 or more: 30 percent
3. Hours per week gastroenterologists spend on paperwork and administration
– Men : 14 hours
– Women: 18 hours
4. Percentage of gastroenterologists that use physician assistants and nurse practitioners
– PAs: 35 percent
– NPs: 48 percent
– Neither: 39 percent
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