How doyou have to wait before the doctor can see you?

Hi Aprilten, It's really a given scenario when you visit a doctor either in the hospital or the clinic--you have to bear with the long line of patients. Does this mean we don't have enough doctors nowadays? they're all abroad? wow.

IF ya go to urgent care her you are seen as you get there but then have to wait for a Doctor to look at all the tests that are dont before hand can take most of the day and the ER forget it I spent 7 hours with a bloody nose before I saw anyone! But if we have and appointment get in on time!

Hi April. It varies, but the waits can grow very long, at the clinics...or even at the doctor's offices. Sometimes, in an emergency, they cannot show up on time, and they also try to work in unscheduled patients who really need to be seen. They try, but if the wait is long, it does grow tiresome. Karen

Well, the doctor could be visiting patients in the hospital before going to his health center. One of the doctor's patients might have needed a little health care than usual. Also, I don't know how you health isurance works there, some health plans might slow a doctor down a bit. Public health is probably different where you are. Do you have govt health care there.

We make appointments to see the doctor in my country and most of the time where I go you do not have to wait more then 15 minutes after your appointment time to see the doctor. Once in awhile though the doctor might have been call to the emergency room and you will have to wait longer but the secertary will tell you if you will have to wait long then if you want you can reschedule for another day.

i hate waiting for the doctor but the doctors but there is no wrong in waiting if we are in the intention of curing ourselves. well we too have our precious times but not as theirs.

I try toi arrive for an apointment a few minutes early, but not so early that I have to wait very long, about 15 minutes before my apointment time actually. If it is a busy day and the doctor is running over time, I may have to wait a little longer, but usualy not too terrbly long, maybe a half hour or so. Most times I am taken in pretty quickly and seen. The emergency room can vary quite a bit in my town's hospital. If it isn't busy, I have been taken right in as soon as I walk to the receptionist. If they are really busy, like if there have been a few car accidents or other more urgent arrivals, I may have toi wait, unless what I am there for is more serious.

Yes it seems like forever and then they send you to another room and say someone will be right with you and I always wonder what are they doing?Why is it taking them so long?Where do they go and in the room they leace me in it is always freezing cold!

Well,i don't know where you are from.And is it free for any guys to see doctor?? In China,you have to cost a fortune to see doctor even you just get a cold.And the same as you,we often have to wait for a long time line.

well ts kind of same and a little different from your case.it is true that we may have to sit for sometime according to the appointment given to the doctor.but the doctors in our place are very punctual about their time.they com and go according to the specified time given on the board where their name and degree is written.and if the number of patients exceeds the consulting time, the appointment is transferred to the next day and they tell that before itself not making us to come there for nothing.

Over here you wait three to four hours. By the time they see you, you're healed.

Haha, we have the same experience. It really annoys me. I would always wait for 3 to 5 hours before being attended to by my doctors. And take note, I see to it that I have made an appointment. I don't just crash to a doctor's clinic. What choice do I have? I just bring tons of magazines and patiently wait for the doctor.

Where I lived before it depends on the kind of doctor. If they're public insurance doctors, you have to wait at least one hour outside the doctor's room, in a hall packed with old people complaining and kids shouting. However, if you go to a private insurance doctor, you don't wait more than 10 minutes. That's why I purchased a private insurance.

sound sooooooo familiar...looks like we come from the same country but in reality only the situation is similar. :)) so in Romania is something normal...:)