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Post by Deleted on Jan 16, 2014 19:15:32 GMT -5
I now only use a dr. who no longer delivers babies.
Same here. But she retired last July, and now I need to find a new GYN.
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Post by Blonde Granny on Jan 16, 2014 19:45:26 GMT -5
My cardiologist canceled 3 appts. with me in a row. I finally called my PC and asked her to find me a different cardio. Within 2 weeks, the new cardio office called to tell me an appt. had been made for me. They mailed me the papers to fill out in advance (at my convenience).
The new cardio was on time for both of my appts. So far so good!!! And my PC Dr. is usually on time, and the couple of times she ran late, she apologized profusely for it.
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Post by InsertCoolName on Jan 16, 2014 19:54:28 GMT -5
My doctor's office is next door to the hospital. She's one of the best ob doctors here in town as well. If I have to wait, I know it's because someone, or more had their first birth day! And if she's at the hospital when I get there, they let me know.
It also helps to remember that I'm NOT the only person in the world who needs to be seen.
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Post by tskeeter on Jan 16, 2014 19:55:37 GMT -5
I like my Dr., but I'm having the same issue. I intentionally schedule the first appointment in the morning. I don't think that over the last three visits, I've actually seen the Dr. until at least 1 1/4 hours after my scheduled appointment time. And then he's often in and out between seeing me and writing prescriptions and ordering tests. So 10 minutes with the Dr. burns up a couple of hours. And when you consider that the first appointment is a hour after I'm supposed to be starting work, by the time I get to work, I've lost half a day of work. That's work I usually end up catching up on during the weekend.
So, basically going to the Dr. stinks. So I avoid the Dr. if there is any way I can.
Methinks it's time to a new Dr.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 16, 2014 20:13:55 GMT -5
My gynecologist works in an office with a few other Ob/gyn's. One day I had an appointment and a patient that was about 7 months pregnant had some kind of seizure in the waiting room. When they heard the screams, the doctors and nurses ran out front to see what was going on. Whatever was wrong with the patient, it was very serious, she was transported to the hospital in an ambulance and her doctor left to go try to save the baby.
There was another patient that was there when it all happened, but couldn't seem to understand why her doctor had to leave and why one of the other doctors couldn't see her at her scheduled time. Well, they'd gotten behind schedule with their own patients because of the emergency. This lady was irate and rude to the ladies at the front desk. Really, lady? Who couldn't be a little understanding in a situation like that? Maybe her lady bits were on fire or something.
I had an 8:30 appt with a specialist once. I didn't even get called to the back until after 10. Then I ended up only talking to the nurse practitioner about what the Dr. would do when she actually saw me when I came back in 3 weeks. What?! I "fired" them for wasting almost 3 hours of my time.
I hate waiting. I give Doctors a little leeway, but if I have an appointment, I don't expect to be kept waiting for hours just because.
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Post by The Walk of the Penguin Mich on Jan 16, 2014 21:44:33 GMT -5
I've been remarkably lucky in that there has only been 2x that I can remember in the last 10 or so years where I have needed to wait a long time for an appointment. One was my gyn and he had an emergency. The front desk let me know what was happening and rescheduled me when it wound up being about 45 min after my appointment and there were 3 who were still waiting ahead of me. Other time was my first orthopod. I fired him because after waiting hours, I had to explain what my past surgery was and what it did. Didn't inspire a lot of confidence with me.
The last 2 years, most of my visits were to either my infectious disease doc or (another) orthopod. Both offices ran on time and both took time with me.
I now need to find a new GP and gyn. I hate breaking in new doctors!
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Post by zibazinski on Jan 16, 2014 22:15:05 GMT -5
Doctors normally schedule 4 patients per hour, on the hour, so unless you are the lucky one, you are going to be anywhere from 15-45 minutes later. Pray everyone only needs 15 minutes! I wait 15, then I'm gone and getting a new doctor.
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Post by lynnerself on Jan 16, 2014 22:23:52 GMT -5
Doctors normally schedule 4 patients per hour, on the hour, so unless you are the lucky one, you are going to be anywhere from 15-45 minutes later. Pray everyone only needs 15 minutes! I wait 15, then I'm gone and getting a new doctor. We certainly don't work that way. If we schedule appointments every 15 mins they are booked in 15 min intervals . In other words, our scheduler is broken down into 15 min intervals, you might have a 9:45 appointment for example. (and not all appointments are 15 mins, some are 30 or more depending on the type of appointment) I agree with Nancy. Most of our providers TRY to stay on schedule, but things come up.
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Post by zibazinski on Jan 16, 2014 22:26:14 GMT -5
Every doctor I know schedules 4 per hour. I'm assuming they feel there will be no shows.
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Post by steff on Jan 17, 2014 0:02:37 GMT -5
Heck, a couple of weeks ago when I was so sick, I showed up at our local clinic (small town, easier to go to clinic over dr's office at the hospital) as they were opening, without an appt. They worked me in between the first 2 scheduled appts. I guess I looked as bad as I felt & I did end up having the real live H1N1 flu (I'm now a stat in Georgia for the flu this year). They stuck me in a room pretty quick so I wouldn't infect everyone else that walked in. I showed up at 8:30 am & was done & out by 9:15. I spent longer at the pharmacy then I did at the clinic.
Granted, it IS a very small town, so that probably helped too. I pretty much refuse to go to the dr's out at the hospital after they totally fucked up my ruptured appendix & nearly killed me. But I don't want to have to drive 30 miles to the other dr/hospital complex if I can hit the clinic instead.
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Post by lynnerself on Jan 17, 2014 0:11:40 GMT -5
Interestingly, we had a customer service training today. They said people don't complain so much about waiting, but not knowing how long the wait will be. If you can keep checking in with people and advising them of the wait time, they are not as upset.
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Post by zibazinski on Jan 17, 2014 7:26:53 GMT -5
This happened when we were on a plane. We stayed on the plane at the gate forever and it was announced that the plane needed a small repair. 45 minutes went by and some new passengers boarded. Just tell us we are waiting for a late plane, don't lie. When passengers started complaining about being lied to, they were threatened with being removed from the plane. What BS.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 17, 2014 8:06:01 GMT -5
This happened when we were on a plane. We stayed on the plane at the gate forever and it was announced that the plane needed a small repair. 45 minutes went by and some new passengers boarded. Just tell us we are waiting for a late plane, don't lie. When passengers started complaining about being lied to, they were threatened with being removed from the plane. What BS. I absolutely agree that being told there will be a wait, and providing whatever truthful info is available, goes a long way towards calming people. I've done the wait on the runway MANY times and I hate it when they just silently sit there and hope you won't notice we were supposed to have taken off half an hour ago. But to get back to the OT: I've been remarkably lucky in that there has only been 2x that I can remember in the last 10 or so years where I have needed to wait a long time for an appointment.. <snip>. Other time was my first orthopod. I fired him because after waiting hours, I had to explain what my past surgery was and what it did. Didn't inspire a lot of confidence with me. Years ago I read an article on doctors and a woman who was expecting twins went in for a visit and was examined by a doc in the practice who hadn't seen her before. He kept remarking how big she was for that stage of pregnancy. She asked if he'd read her chart to see why she was that big. He said he hadn't had time. She replied, "then I don't have time to be examined", put on her clothes, and left. Yes!!
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Post by NomoreDramaQ1015 on Jan 17, 2014 9:11:04 GMT -5
I dismissed my last clinic because I was in the process of weaning so I was engorged. One side always produced more than the other so I was lopsided. I explained to the guy that I had a year old baby and had just stopped pumping a few days ago so I was swollen. He said "all right" . I sit up after the exam and he goes "Ma'am are you aware one boob is bigger than the other? Are they always like that?" That's it, I'm out.
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Post by The Walk of the Penguin Mich on Jan 17, 2014 9:30:37 GMT -5
Years ago I read an article on doctors and a woman who was expecting twins went in for a visit and was examined by a doc in the practice who hadn't seen her before. He kept remarking how big she was for that stage of pregnancy. She asked if he'd read her chart to see why she was that big. He said he hadn't had time. She replied, "then I don't have time to be examined", put on her clothes, and left. Yes!!
When it happened to me, I mentioned that I had had a periacetabular osteotomy to correct bilateral hip dysplasia. The surgeon (who ONLY did hip replacements) said "what's that?".
At least I managed to get a referral out of him to a surgeon who DID know what it was....but the fact that he knew nothing about surgical corrections for a rather common structural abnormality was rather disturbing. I guess what bothered me even more was he was rather young.
He was the surgeon when I got infected, and a large part of the reason why I checked myself out of the hospital AMA and went someplace else. The residents on his service were just as bad.
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Post by dancinmama on Jan 17, 2014 10:09:07 GMT -5
Back in the day if I had a doctor that I wanted to keep that tended to run late, I'd call their office before I left for the appointment to see if they were on schedule. Sometimes they were and sometimes they weren't, but a 2 minute phone call did the trick.
In 2009 we switched to Kaiser and USUALLY the wait times are minimal so I never bother to call. It will be interesting to note whether or not Obamacare changes that.
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Post by tloonya on Jan 17, 2014 15:49:16 GMT -5
Interestingly, we had a customer service training today. They said people don't complain so much about waiting, but not knowing how long the wait will be. If you can keep checking in with people and advising them of the wait time, they are not as upset. Exactly! Imagine nurse coming out every 15 min and tells you in a loving voice 'who is Dr's. Shmuck's favorite patient? yes you are, yes you are'...and 2 hours wait will seem more like...1 hour and 45min... I was wondering though if those both women missed the message that doctor took day off on that day? Because for so long no one else came to see this doctor...it was 2 women. In 2+ hours...if dr scheduling appts every 15 min room was supposed to be full of people...like 8...right?
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Post by kilroy on Jan 17, 2014 15:54:35 GMT -5
At my first appointment at the pain management clinic I was kept waiting for an insanely long time because "well, you weren't here and another patient was". I was there 15 minutes before I was told to be (which was 15 minutes before my actual appt time, so I could fill out paperwork), and the person who was seen first was scheduled after me. Nice to know that having no life (or job) and being able to just hang out at the doctor's office for an hour will make you a priority. I was furious.
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Post by Sharon on Jan 17, 2014 18:53:31 GMT -5
The last time I went for an appointment with the GYN I had been sitting there for 45 minutes. During that time I heard a couple of phone calls from a women who was having a reaction to a medication. They told her to come on in and they would work her in. After 45 minutes another women showed up and they told her it would be at least a 45 minute wait and they would call her, she worked in another doctors office in the building. When I asked how much longer I was told at least another 45 minutes. Knowing that someone was coming in with a medication reaction I figured they would be taken ahead of me. I left and said I would call to reschedule. Never did and a few months later there was an article in the paper about the doctor retiring because he could no longer make enough money.
Well Duh, if you keep losing your patients because you run so chronically late yes you will lose your patients.
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