Eight minutes: this is approximately (1) how long it takes sunlight to reach the earth; (2) how long it takes to hard-boil an egg (if you eat them) and (3) how long medical residents — doctors in training — spend with patients per day on average.
What’s more, researchers from Johns Hopkins University and the University of Maryland have found that those eight minute are less than the amount of time that residents used to spend with patients (and make the standard 15 minutes allotted to a medical office visit seem generous).
