NEW YORK (PIX11) — “Don’t touch patient time, every minute counts,” was the chant of doctors who are furious over the New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation setting the clock back on the amount of time doctors can spend with new patients, from 40 minutes to 20 minutes.
Because of the backlog of hundreds of patients waiting to see doctors, the new rule that took effect last week slashes in half the amount of time a doctor can tend to a new patient.
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“This cut is a crisis in the making,” declared Frances Quinn, the president of the Doctor’s Council.
To dramatize their alarm over the timing change, doctors staged a rally outside the Queens Hospital Center…