Doctors Office

It happens mostly in America. I hate it. True...I was working in medical office. Doctors have scheduled 5-6 patients at the same time. On top of it each Doctor has a "goal" how much money office has to make. Patient pays a fortune and has to wait forever. Office crew has a huge pressure to "bring in" more patients. Huge pressure to "produce" more and more and is never enough. Because of production goal, patients are getting done more than needed. Doctors are upset when office is not making at least 200000 per month. Somehow they teach in medical school that patient is much better waiting in "operatory" than reception. So you are being throw into operatory...and doctor is coming when ready. They do the same in vet clinic. I was waiting once in tiny room with 2 shaking and crying dogs for over in hour. I find my solution. This is what you have to do: -you can ask to be in operatory only when doctor is ready -say that you are Claustrophobia and you can not stay alone in small room.

That happened to me once. I took a book and my CD player with me....maybe I should have taken my laptop. When the doctor came in, I just ignored him for the first few minutes, and then I closed my book and said "Oh sorry....when I got here it was 2:00, now it appears to be 2:30. I guess I just got so engrossed in my book I didn't even notice you." LOL He got my point!

Yes of course this has happened to me and I always bring my own book. I think doctors have so many patients because they are trying to make as much money as possible. luckily for me my doctors office is a walk in place that I love you can not ever place an appt. you just show up this is really helpful for my family because my hubbie is a rr worker and is on call and goes out of state.

This happens all the time when I go to take the kids to the Dr's.I am lucky if I only spend an hour there.Less than ten minutes of the time is spent with the Dr himself.I know it is so aggrivating to me too.

I've had this happen to me before. I can't stand it and it makes me so mad. I know that maybe the doctor got busy with another patient but the nurses could at least come in and tell me what's going on and why it's taking so long. It's really bad if you go to the doctor like on your lunch break or you have to be somewhere after the doctor's appointment because then it messes up your whole schedule for the rest of the day.

Yes, this has happened to me more them once, I have about 4 different doctors that I visit on a regular basis. What I do now is either get the first appointment of the day or I will call and see if they are running "ontime". I also have some games I enjoy loaded on my cell phone, or bring my GBA with me. I'm the antsy type and sometimes looking a magazine doesn't help. And the most important thing I do about the situation is talked to my doctor about it and let them know how I feel about it --- now I am over 50 and I say that just to say its taken me years to learn that Doctors are gods and if we don't start expressing our compliants they won't change their ways either -- if there is an emergency okay but let me know when I arrive so I have a choice of making a new appointment. Communication a big if not the biggest key to sucess! :)

i hate waiting on doctors,we should get a discount for having to wait.

It never happens to me at my doctor's office, but at my husband's (he goes to his old family doctor's) we once waited in the waiting room for a whole hour. We finally had enough and went up to the desk to say what's the deal... the woman at the desk marked him as a no show. She got his name wrong...

Oh I have had this happen and even sometimes longer. Sometimes it's waiting a good 30 to 40 minutes before you even get into the back and then you have to sit there and twiddle your thumbs. However if you are even 5 minutes late you can lose your appointment time. I can't figure that out. My time is just as important as the doctors, why can they keep us waiting that long. They need to stop over booking, and some do horribly at this, and start concentrating on making things happen on time.

Whenever I go to a doctors office, I bring along with me something to read, a book a magazine or news paper. Most of the time waiting is one inevitable in doctors office. Next time you go see your doctor better bring a reading material.

girl you wouldnt believe. i was scheduled at 2 pm. i got there right at 2 pm. then it took til almost 3pm to get me weighed and into a room. then the nurse said the doctor will be in and then she came back and said he had to deliver a baby. well you know when they call the doctor in the head is usually out and all he has to do is pull it out and hand it to the nurse. well he didnt come back into the room until 345pm. and then he talked to me for a minute about my problem. and then he said change into the gown and i'll be back in 15 minutes. he came back in 20 mintues. by that time is was 415pm. then he looked at me talked to me and said it may or may not get better. i got out of there at 5pm. and had to be back home by 530pm and i live 45 minutes away in another town. i was mad as all stuff. i was there for 3 hours. and came out with no help and the same answers i had gotten from my regular doctor and the nurse at planned parenthood. here in my town 1 hour is nothing to be in a doctors office and out. it usually takes longer than that.

Yes this happens probably too often also today. This is probably my main reason for always trying to avoid the doctor all together. I also noticed that as a walk in patient you seem to get in much quicker than if you had made an appointment.

it depends on the character of this docter... some of them have no time conception...I am so lucky that I did not meet so circumstances..wish you never meet this circumstance in future.

I wished I had a dollar for every minute I have waited in a waiting room or for a doctor to finally come into the examination room. I would be able to afford any kind of house to live in. I have had your similar reactions and thoughts as to why do I have to wait so long for them when I am on time, but let me be 5 minutes late and they refuse to see me and make me set up another appointment. I hate waiting because my time is valuable too. I am going the gambit with doctors right now and my patience is getting thinner and thinner.

I know that waiting is miserable, and if this is something that happens everytime you see this doctor, then I would consider it a problem and maybe seek a new doctor. However, if this only happens occasionally, you need to stop and think about it. Perhaps the person ahead of you had some kind of very serious problem that required a lot more of the doctor's time than was anticipated. You have no way of knowing what kind of problem he ran into there. I like knowing that when I have a problem that requires more than the alloted amount of time, the doctor will give it to me and not just rush me through to get to the next patient. There is no way for a doctor to accurately anticipate exactly how much time each patient is going to need for each appointment.

This always happens to me. I get really mad too..because I am always early like you. I hate when you have to wait...and sometimes I say something to that effect. However..they always seem to have an excuse for it...etc. I agree that they should keep thier appointments on time just like thier patients...

It happens all the time, that is the way it is with doctors they work on their own agenda, the funny thing is I work in the retail environment I have seen doctors take fits over waiting for only a minute or two for someone to find something for them. I think they are on a power trip and do it because they can.

I know its happen to me too. They dont care how long they keep you. I have change doctors because of that. I now have good family Doctor who does not keeping me waiting. You shouldnt have to.

You and I must have the same doctors. I call and check if the doctor is running late before I leave home to keep my appointment if the receptionist says he/she is on time. I am at the doctor's office on time. It only takes me 15 minutes to get there and if I have to wait longer than 20 minutes. I make a loud point of telling the receptionist or nurse that some-one didn't tell the truth when I called. Now I never have to wait more than 10 minutes so I guess complaining does work.

Yes this has happened to me on several occasions. I don't think I ever waited 40 minutes from the time I was taken into the examining room but it's been close to it. I agree with you that if we are courteous enough to show up on time to our appointment the doctor should show the same courtesy. They seem to think their time is more valuable than ours. Why, because they make more money than we do? Well, they are wrong.