Community Chat

[NativeJax]

I am too hungry to socialize lol...

[maestra]

My doctor(PCP) has a policy to let staff know if you have waited for 20 minutes+. Specialists are a whole other ballgame.

[ValuSkr]

Doctors should operate like my HVAC contractor - if he's late, my appointment is free.  That'll never happen of course.  Doctors are about making money as much if not more than keeping people well.

[chessylady]

I have never done this but some people recommend that you call before leaving home to ask if the doctor is running late. Then tell the receptionist that you will come in within 15 minutes of the adjusted time. I have an HMO and have never waited more than 15 minutes.

[Marp]

I would rather my doctor give me all the time I need whether it be 10 minutes or 30 or more minutes than set a time interval for each patient to keep everyone on schedule.  If that means waiting so be it.   For me waiting is preferable to having to schedule another appointment because my time is up.

[NativeJax]

Well, I am really getting tired of waiting. I can't tell you the last time I didn't have to wait less than an hour for a doctor. So I just left, rescheduled for a morning appointment. So irritated at the moment.

[Lovingq]

When I go for my yearly physical I have to fill out information again and my doctor is usually on time while I'm still going through sheafs of paper.   Last appointment I noticed that they didn't change the paper on the examination table.  When the doctor told me to sit up there I said no thanks the paper  wasn't changed. She called for her guy to come in and change it...don't know what his title was.  

[Puppy Lips]

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@gidgetgh wrote:

I hate waiting for doctors. For routine things, I always make my appointment for the first appointment of the day.  At least that cuts down on some of it. 

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My first OB/GYN for my first child was ALWAYS running way late.  I was working full time then.  I would make the very first appointment of the day, and she (the doctor) STILL made me wait an hour or so.  The waiting room would be full of people before she even SHOWED UP to the office.  I changed doctors after our son was born.  There is no way she was delivering a baby (a plausible reason for lateness) just before each of my morning appointments.  She had no regard for my time.  I had a job too.  

Oh yeah, to top it off, she put me on a different birth control pill after the birth.  When I told her I was spotting, she told me not to worry about it.  Well guess what -- baby #2 was on the way before we were ready.  Okay, maybe that was TMI. LOL.

[NativeJax]

I think it's ridiculous to expect patients to wait that long...i am not in the emergency room I made an appointment, it's just a primary appointment. The specialist I am prepared to wait but still I waited two plus hours the last two visits, just plan ridiculous.

If I left clients sitting in my waiting area for two hours I would have no clients!

[Kachina624]

Because medical providers obviously think their time is more valuable than ours. 

I have been known to go to the receptionist after waiting an excessive amount of time and tell her I'm leaving and please make me an appointment for first thing in a morning.