How long would you wait in the doctor's office?

you are a patience person , may be this question depends on the place and what time it happened.. may be i will wait for more than 2 hours,(if i am waiting for a meal with my girlfriend .lol,,) may be i cann't wait for 5 minutes. if i have something more important to do.. hehe.. enjoy yourself!!happy mylotting!

when I made the medical examinations at the most I have waited 1' minutes, only the dentist a few unexpected I had to wait a little longer, but never 2 hours!. I believe that to wait for a lack of professionalism, once it can happen but if it becomes the norm, not just apologiza to your patient. I suggest you change doctors and to rely on a more professional.

Hello Deejean, Twenty minutes -- that's it. Any longer and I get up and tell the receptionist that I will wait no longer, the turn around and walk out the door. I would gladly drive 100 miles away to see a professional that respects my time. In all fairness, before I agree to any appointment with any professionals I always share my 'tweny minute rule' with them, and explain that in return, I will never make anyone wait longer than twenty minutes for me. By being forthcoming, I empower such proffessionals to either accept my business or say "No thanks". This goes for all professionals who I travel to see. If they travel to my home (like cable tv installer etc...) I will set the appointment up with a two hour window, and the caveat that I will bill the provider if kept waiting any longer than that. This spares us all the fury over having been disrespected by another. 'Cause that's what it really is, a matter of respect -- be it mutual or one-sided. I tend to stick with the mutual. Your blood pressure story is a perfect example. Of course they caused your BP to spike because they were disrespecting you. Incidentally, before I came up with the notion of sharing my 'twenty minute rule', I was kept waiting an inordinate amount of time by a doctor. I sent that doctor a bill for MY TIME, which wasn't well recieved at all. If more people did just that, I believe that we'd start to see some respect and real customer service returned to commerce!

because of ontario's (canada)'free' healthcare, you tend to wait for at least an hour during the winter because of colds/flus etc, so that really is nothing. i once had to wait at an allergists and the girls at the desk forgot me! (and my appointment - i sure wasnt happy!) i usually end up waiting for an hour most of the time.

I would wait for an hour the most even though thats why I would bring my ipod with me since it would make waiting a hell of a lot easier for me. But luckly the longest I ever had to wait for a doctor was only 30 min. Usally there pretty fast and dont get delayed.

I don't like to wait at the Dr's office either, but when I was pregant and waiting to see the Dr. for my obgyn appointments, I would often wait longer than an hour. Sometimes, the Dr. would fall behind or some other obstacle got in the way. Many times the receptionist would inform me that the Dr. was running behind schedule and if I would like to come back after a certain amount of time. I really appreciated that because as you mentioned, our time is valuable to us as well. We have things that we have to do, or maybe we are trying to fit the appointment in during our lunch hour. I have done that many times with a dentist appointment. In all honesty, if I had the extra time, I would wait an hour before trying to reschedule the appointment.

hi deejean06 :) with my own experience when am preggy that time (for almost 2 hours..the OB is so brilliant and i can't find of any OB that is good as she does ;)) buy anyways i surpassed those days already LOL and until now am experiencing it haha-with my son's pedia. yes and everytime we go to that clinic i should allot my whole day for that before i go for half day at work but when we had this experience of waiting for almost 3-4 hours (am not exaggerating but it's true :D) the pedia is so nice and after some hop in coz my child can't get along well with his previous pedias/drs. we have to stay with his doctor now- there's no problem with me i have a very long patience in regards of everything (patience is a virtue right? ;)) but with my baby and my hubby as well they can't stand for waiting long hours, but i already have a remedy here we'll just register first and look on what number are we and if it's like we're on 20s :D we will go malling first and estimate the time if we think that we're next on the line (mall is just walking distance from the clinic so no worries at all ;) thanks for this one!:) happy myLotting! Godabless!0=)

At my surgery the wait can be long. Sometimes the doctors get called out to the hospital or they are just running behind. The time slot for an appointment is ten minutes. But there have been times when I have ben suffering badly with my depression and I have been sat in the doctors office for almost an hour. When I came out it was to many angry faced people! Having been there I understand that sometimes people need that extra time and I just patiently wait my turn. If I need to see a doctor I will wait as long as I need to.

Hi, deejean06! I am sorry for your wait! Well, if I have another appointment that I had to go to, or somewhere that I had to be, then I would not wait. I would go up front and tell them that I don't have time to wait and that I would like to reschedule. And if I have time to wait and there is nothing else to do, then I will just sit and wait it out. Sometimes, I can be very patient. But, if I am in pain or bleeding, I will not wait two hours. I will leave.

depends on the magazines on the place.. or if theres a tv around.. then i would take my time.. jijij

The longest I have had to wait to see my GP was around 1 hour. I was pretty annoyed at having to wait that long but then I had taken time off other stuff so I just waited until I could be seen. Had I have walked away I would have ended up wasting the entire day. It is annoying isn't it?

I only go if I'm sick. Sometimes I've had to wait a long time. Like I was supposed to go in at 11pm, but I don't get in till she's finished seeing regular patients who have appointments. So I get in after 5 pm. I hate that, but it's not like I can predict when I'm going to be sick and make the appointment ahead of the day!

I cant wait in a hospital for more than half an hour. i kind of hate hospitals a lot. i just dont like its smell, and those medicines at all. but unfortunately most of the time you will find me there. though these days i have stopped going at all, even if i am not well. because i just dont like that place at any cost.its too irritating for me. and 2 hours is out of question for me.lol

I will wait for only 10 minutes.

It depends...if I really need to see the doctor then I wait for as long as the doctor arrives. But if its not that important, then fifteen minutes would be max.