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<blockquote data-quote="susiestar" data-source="post: 429312" data-attributes="member: 1233"><p>I refuse to wait like that. I drive an average of 90 min each way to a doctor appointment and there is no way that I can put out that much work, planning, gas money, etc... and time and then wait hours for the doctor. Won't happen. The doctor can at least be as courteous of me as I am of the doctor. That means schedule appts realistically. I see a LOT of specialists with the kids' appts and even at the research hospital for Jessie we don't wait like that. Unless they are having emergencies come in and the doctor is called out to one or they have so many people coming in on an emergency basis there is NO excuse for long wait times. It is just bad management, pure and simple. </p><p></p><p>Send the doctor a bill for the time, your travel expenses (including drinks for the road, mileage, lunch while you are away from home, etc...) and let them know that you don't mind being patient but you are NOT going to wait like that again. Esp not for an appointment that they mess up. They can confirm the day before and let you know or else they can pay for your trip and time. </p><p></p><p>Mom and I saw a specialist when I was in high school and he had crazy waiting times. Two and a half hours wait for an appointment was not unusual. It was NOT because they had so many patients to work in each time for emergencies. I later learned that the guy's wife was paying the office staff on a per patient basis and they got paid more to fit in more patients into a day. So they routinely booked appointments for five min or less and double booked those. Then the doctor would NOT be rushed and had no clue that his waiting room was so full. After one particularly crazy long wait, almost four hours, my mother sent a bill for her time at her consulting rate - ended up being over a thousand bucks. It was the first time the doctor had ever heard that he had patients that waited an hour or more for every appointment. Things changed after that because he thought it was ridiculous. He had never gone into his waiting room - his staff was told to direct him away from there. The staff came to get you, not the doctor. He went from exam room to exam room to office and had a private door to the outside.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="susiestar, post: 429312, member: 1233"] I refuse to wait like that. I drive an average of 90 min each way to a doctor appointment and there is no way that I can put out that much work, planning, gas money, etc... and time and then wait hours for the doctor. Won't happen. The doctor can at least be as courteous of me as I am of the doctor. That means schedule appts realistically. I see a LOT of specialists with the kids' appts and even at the research hospital for Jessie we don't wait like that. Unless they are having emergencies come in and the doctor is called out to one or they have so many people coming in on an emergency basis there is NO excuse for long wait times. It is just bad management, pure and simple. Send the doctor a bill for the time, your travel expenses (including drinks for the road, mileage, lunch while you are away from home, etc...) and let them know that you don't mind being patient but you are NOT going to wait like that again. Esp not for an appointment that they mess up. They can confirm the day before and let you know or else they can pay for your trip and time. Mom and I saw a specialist when I was in high school and he had crazy waiting times. Two and a half hours wait for an appointment was not unusual. It was NOT because they had so many patients to work in each time for emergencies. I later learned that the guy's wife was paying the office staff on a per patient basis and they got paid more to fit in more patients into a day. So they routinely booked appointments for five min or less and double booked those. Then the doctor would NOT be rushed and had no clue that his waiting room was so full. After one particularly crazy long wait, almost four hours, my mother sent a bill for her time at her consulting rate - ended up being over a thousand bucks. It was the first time the doctor had ever heard that he had patients that waited an hour or more for every appointment. Things changed after that because he thought it was ridiculous. He had never gone into his waiting room - his staff was told to direct him away from there. The staff came to get you, not the doctor. He went from exam room to exam room to office and had a private door to the outside. [/QUOTE]
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