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| February 01, 2007 | COPYRIGHT 2007 Consumers Union of the United States, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Sure, you love your doctors. But your visits to them might be more rushed than you realize, and you might not be following their instructions as well as you think you are.

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Those are some of the findings of the Consumer Reports National Research Center's survey of 39,090 patients about their doctor visits. We also asked 335 primary-care physicians about how things look from the other side of the exam table. More findings:

* The overwhelming majority of patients said they were highly satisfied with their doctors and got better under their care. These are among the highest ratings of any services we've evaluated.

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