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How much free time do doctors/surgeons have?

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Not much personally, but I agree it depends upon who you are and what you do AND what you mean by free time. Lets just say long hours are more the norm. Its not just what you see at an office visit as a patient, a lot of time goes into making the day progress smoothly. read more

Clinically demanding specialties like general surgery, general internal medicine, obstetrics, and anesthesia do not permit much free time during working hours. Specialties like dermatology have as much free time as they like, with a mind to at least covering one's overhead. read more

Practicing physicians do get "regular" sick and vacation time, but that has little/nothing to do with being "shift-based." In fact, most physicians are not "shift-based" (exceptions being things like ED docs). read more

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