For years, Dr. Poss has been feeling more like a factory worker than a family doctor. With insurance reimbursement averaging $23 a patient, her practice has become an assembly line.
She has to see six patients an hour, sometimes seven, at her Crofton office to make a living and pay five staffers and two physician assistants.
It became so unfulfilling and grinding there were days she said she went home crying.
"What I went into medicine for is no longer there," she said last week.
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