![]() ![]() The story is even worse when you look under the hood at certain specialties and markets. In their 2022 survey, the wait for a new patient appointment increased to an average of 26 days. That year, the national average wait to get in to see a new physician was 21 days, an unacceptable amount of time to wait to access care. In 2004, the physician search firm Merritt Hawkins first issued their Survey of Physician Appointment Wait Times. Opinion: Long waits to see a doctor are a public health crisis
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