Doctors Visits oh no!

That sounds like a typical office visit.We actually spend more time waiting that getting treated...It s that 20 minute wait in the examining room that I hate...I do not understand why they don't just leave you in the waiting room until the doctor is ready to see you...Yes there is a lot wrong with this picture but as long as i can remember thats always the way doctors visits have always been..I know my Mom used to take me to our family doctor when I was a kid and we waited in the waiting room 3 or 4 hours every time,but the doctor would always took you to his office and talked for an hour....I hated to go because of that but i was a child..

My doctor visits are about the same. A whole lot of time waiting and barely even 10 minutes with an actual doctor and maybe another 10 minutes with a nurse. Thats why I don't really trust the doctor and don't like to go. I have to pay 20 bucks to get him to prescribe me some medicine that I probably don't even need. My doctor also tends to think that pain pills are the answer to everything and I don't agree.

As you know we have a pretty good in Canada for paying for medical care but we also have long waits. Doctors don't get paid enough for the services they render, so they over book. My phychriast is the only doctor that does not overbook. One appointment he kept me waiting because of a phone call he received and he apologized to me for being late. That is the only time a doctor apologized to me for using my valuable time up. Yes they may have gone to school and got big degrees but there is no excuse for the waits.

I had to laugh reading this. I could feel your impatience. LOL I hate going to the dr. It is an all day event around here. They think our time is not valuable but their time is like gold. LOL

I just went to a doctor and when I wanted to ask some questions that the doctor did not feel were relavent to the visit I was told that they had only scheduled me for a 15 min office visit at the most, and if I had any other medical concerns I would have to make another appointment because there were other patients waiting. I had already waited over an hour in the exam room to even see the doctor. and no one told me I was only scheduled for just a 15 min office visit. I assumed when you make a sick appointment you could ask about any problems that you were having, just in case any other problem may be connected to anything else. So everything could be fixed at once not just have to keep coming back and keep running up more bills. I hate going to doctors.

I had a similar experience yesterday! I had surgery a month ago to remove endometriosis, and yesterday was my post-op appointment. I got there at 10:25 for a 10:30 appointment, someone came to take my vitals at 10:45, I waited another 15 minutes, got into the room, waited another 20 minutes, the doctor came in and shook my hand, left for another 20 minutes, examined me for maybe two minutes during which time I felt like I didn't get to ask him anything at all and then left. I have seen him many other times, though, so I know that he is a wonderful doctor and a very nice man. He just must have been so rushed! I do have a new respect for doctors, however. My boyfriend recently started practicing dentistry and there are so many days when employees don't show up and the whole staff is behind schedule all day. Additionally, he has several patients every day who are running late...that messes up the whole schedule. Maybe that's the key! We should all just make sure we always show up on time!

Like everyone has said.You are going to have to wait where ever you go and i'm not sticking up for the doctors but they are really busy,they try to overbook their schedules and sometimes they don't even see the schedule and just know what time they start and end,they may be short staffed that day,and their may be more than one doctor in that office and they have to share exam rooms.So there are alot of scenerios to the situation.

When I go to see the doctor, it normally takes me at least three hours. I always make sure I have brought a book to read. Today I had to go back for my semianual blood tests to see if the cancer has returned (Yuk!). I always dread these blood tests. Please pray for me.

My visits to doctors are very rare, I just hate doctors and do anything to avoid them :) also the waiting time is like ages for me and it's very hard to take, I really don't see doctors unless I'm very ill, some kind of phobia I guess :)

I think it's ridiculous. But, it's how things have gotten to be. Honestly, be thankful that you didn't have a longer wait. Infact, with as bad as it has gotten around here, you should be glad that you even got into the doctor's office. Unfortunately, most doctors don't seem concerned with the individual patient anymore. Hope your child is feeling better soon!

My doctors appointments are not bad for the most part. There are a few times when he has been behind. But since I always bring a book, (I am a big book reader) I always read until I get called. Sometimes I will be so into the book that they have to call my name more than once. Since it doesn't happen on a regular basis it doesn't bother me.

Right now my doctors visits are non existent. I cant afford health care and no insurance. Would probably go to the emergency room if I needed something bad enough. I want to move to Arizona.

Our visits are not that bad! We might have to wait awhile in the waiting room but the doctor is really attentive and doesn't rush through anything, that is what I like the most.

Oh yes sounds very typical. I've waited even longer than that to see our doctor. It feels like they schedule patients appointments very close together and if one appointment takes long it messes up the schedule for the entire day. I always try to get one of the first openings in the morning so hopefully the wait won't be to bad.

Wow! I want that doctor. Thats really fast! I usually spend about an hour or more waiting for the overbooked patients ahead of me to get through. Then comes the weigh-in, blood pressure, temp taking and questions and I'm put in a tiny, claustrphobic room to wait another 30 minutes. Now the doctor comes in and has you tell all over again why you're there, he looks at it and then leaves (15 mintues). Another 10-15 minutesd go by and the nurse returns to either take a specimin or culture and sends you to the waiting room for a new appointment and/or prescriptions - another 10 minutes at least. My appointments take around 2-3 hours!

When I go to my doctors I do not need an appointment as I go to a medical centre where I can see most of the time my main doctor I go there at example at 10:00 and I would be finished seeing the doctor around 10:30 which is really great that I do not have to lose that much time unless I am going to have a test but then that normally takes around 3 hours as I have to come back every hour, to complete 3 tests results.

well when i was pregnant i went to the doctor all the time, had to. my doctors visits were reall short. i waited in the waiting room no longer than 5 mins. then the nurse who took me back did all the things she needed to do, then i waited about 10 mins and my doctor came in spent about 15-20 mins with me then gave me my papers and we left. i guess i am one of the lucky ones.

I will have my first visit to an OB this coming wednesday and I don't know how it will turn out, i just hope i would not wait that long,maybe I will call first and ask if the doctor is coming on time or will be late.It ususally happens here also in my country,patients wait for like hours and hours.it's sad but it's the way it is.

wow you have more patence than me last appointment went like this 09:55 arrive for appointment 10:00 time of appointment 10:10 nurse takes me to room 10:15 Doc arrives, does the prod and poke 10:25 Doc gives me meds for cold 10:30 leave Also have told doc that if they cannot see me with in 15 mins of appoitment time let me know so i do not waste my time there this came about because showed up and waited in waiting room for 2 hrs before he could see me told nurse could not wait longer 5 mins was in the room and out the door in 20 mins later. They only do it casue we let them i have even told the doc if they expect me to wait a long time that i would start billing him a late fee for being late for the appointment.

It is always something wrong with the picture. Because I know the feeling because they put you in a room and make you wait. Then the nurses comes in to check on you and to found out what is wrong with you. But then they say the doctor is on the way over and then it is taking a long way to get into the room or something always comes up and then they keep making up excuse. Then I get pissed off and then when they finally get in there. You dont have the pain no more but they still want to keep you there and then they take forever to write out the preciption and send you on the way.