If I told new business clients it was a four month wait until I could take their business ...

[ReluctanceTango]

8. Huh?

My mother worked anesthesia for 40 years. No specialists or surgeons with privileges at her hospital(s) worked only 3 days a week. Maybe they're at their clinics only 2-3 days, but they're usually in surgery when they're not seeing patients, or making rounds to check on surgery patients, before and after procedures.

I've known a bunch of doctors, and one thing most of them didn't have was free time. I'm always asking my oncologist and cardiologist if they've been getting enough sleep, because they always look dead-dog tired when I see them. 70+ hour weeks are the norm for them.

Any doctor who has normal free time is either in a low-workload field, or a lousy doctor. You can almost always take that to the bank.