A new survey from PartnerMD's 2026 Primary Care Check-Up found that only 24% of patients report visits lasting 20 minutes or more, and 68% say appointments feel rushed at least sometimes. Only 16% feel their doctor knows them extremely well. And a separate study analyzing recorded doctor-patient conversations found something worth sitting with: across 157 visits, patients spoke an average of 773 words while doctors spoke about 1,911 — with patients out-talking their doctor in