You may wait a while to get an appointment with doctor, and may wait a while to SEE the doctor, but how long in the room WITH the doctor?
In most people's experience, it's not a very long visit.
And that is precisely the issue Victoria Sweet, herself a physician, has with modern medicine: the speed.
She says good medical care takes time, and she advocates for it in her book Slow Medicine: The Way to Healing. How slow? The doctor is in to explain.