A few "five minutes late" appointments go by, and before you know it they're an hour behind! It's crazy
Let's blame them.
Maybe, and I don't doubt that urgent appointments happen and they try to squeeze them in and I understand that, one day it might be me.
But talking specifically about my kid's pediatrician and my wife's obstetrician, we several times were scheduled for a specific time, and we came to learn we were scheduled in 10 to 15 minutes windows, and most times the appointment would last for at least 20 to 30 minutes.
So they do have some blame, and they charge too much not to have some semblance of time keeping.
I'd rather wait for the doctor that takes its time to diagnose everyone than the one that is always on time
Bold of you to assume they're not just taking in way too many ~~customers~~ patients
What are they supposed to do? Turn away sick people?
“Sorry you think you have an infection. Just deal with it for a few more weeks until I have time”
Have a system that doesn't pressure and schedule dr's for maximum profit. Have a system of education that doesn't cap the number of dr's graduated per year. Tis the squeeze of capitalism.
I would rather they manage their appointments like they value everyone's time. Not everyone has an hour to wait PAST when they say they are available.
Maybe the one that's always on time is just really good at diagnosing.
"Cancer. Get out. Erectile dysfunction. Get out. Missing a leg. Get out."
Dam I thought it was just an inner ear infection giving me balance issues.
One of the skills doctors need is to be able to not only look that the most apparent option because should they diagnose wrong the patient is in a even worse position. Medicine is not a okams razor field, getting the diagnosis right precedes getting it fast.
In US, money precedes diagnosis. Now give me $850 and try again with another doctor
How Covid didn't end with a modern Black Plague incident in the US is beyond me.
Yes it's much better to diagnose issues with no diagnostic criteria.
And you get Fibromyalgia, and you get IBS, and you get some Lupus
I've tried nothing and I'm all out of ideas
Then refuse to treat them. That's for another doctor
Speaking from experience, we're an hour behind because 20 people were 5 minutes late
My mother does two things whenever I take her to a doctor's appointment:
A huge number of Gen X and boomers have a strange idea that you're supposed to distrust and challenge doctors constantly. Like they're going to try to cheat you or something.
It's not that strange an idea given the extent to which the pharmaceutical industry essentially bribes doctors to prescribe their drugs, or the frequency with which health care organizations defraud Medicare and insurance companies, fraud which often takes the form of unnecessary medical procedures. Blindly trusting any professional is the strange idea (I agree that constant distrust is probably unhelpful).
Boy, isn't that a great system?
This is all literally all not a thing here. Hospitals aren't usually private businesses at all and taking bribes is in fact illegal.
Yet older generations still distrust doctors here too
Germany has mostly a public health system and yet doctors are mostly not to be trusted. Public sector can also be pressured into cutting corners
Possibly because in the past there was a notion that doctors would lie to their patients "for their own good", and that the doctor's decision about your care was something you had to just accept.
The notion that patients could advocate for their own care arose during the boomers' lifetime.
That's because a lot of doctors are untrustworthy (being people), and as the years roll by many have watched our loved ones suffer and die in horrifying pain
IT WILL HAPPEN TO YOU
How does that make sense lol. If everyone is 5 minutes late, then the whole schedule shifts back 5 minutes. The only way it builds into an hour long wait is if they're being overbooked on an over optimistic schedule. Hoping they'll only take X minutes but they actually take X+5, for example.
And definitely not from the over scheduling. Yep definitely not that.
Or dealing with someone's life threatening emergency and pretending it's people being late.
The doctor's office when they're an hour behind because people keep coming in late.
My mum is a nurse. From what she tells me, almost all wait times are caused by the doctors who book too many patients and appoint each patient too little of time.
I've had appointments at opening time and they're still half an hour late. Doctor strolling in 15 minutes after the appointment time.
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