Author Topic: Doctors@#%$&@!!! (Read 870 times)

1776 · « **on:** January 12, 2001, 12:55:00 PM »

Well, it's been many years since my last physical so I made a Dr. appointment. Was there on time at 11am

course I had to park illegally. Waited 1 hour and still no Doc!! I went to the desk and told them to reschedule me, which they did, but tried to get me to stay by stating I was only 2 out. I said no and would be there next Thursday at 9:45am.

Now my question....Is this normal to have to wait to have service in a Doc's office...a car place,sure is understandable..but a Doc's office!!????

Man, there were some really sick ppl in the waiting room too. I hope I didn't catch anything!!!

Ozark · « **Reply #1 on:** January 12, 2001, 01:08:00 PM »

Unfortunately many doctors schedule patients like airlines book passengers. They both factor in "no shows" in their scheduling/booking formula.

Your wait is not out of the norm these days.

NATEDOG · « **Reply #2 on:** January 12, 2001, 01:12:00 PM »

I saw on the news, a few years back, that a lawyer went to a doctor's appt. on time....... she waited about 2 hours before the doc got to her. then upon returning to her office, sent the doctor a bill for 2 hours of her time. The doctor was ordered to pay.

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mrfish · « **Reply #3 on:** January 12, 2001, 02:56:00 PM »

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Originally posted by NATEDOG:
I saw on the news, a few years back, that a lawyer went to a doctor's appt. on time....... she waited about 2 hours before the doc got to her. then upon returning to her office, sent the doctor a bill for 2 hours of her time. The doctor was ordered to pay.

that's pretty amazing really considering that the only thing longer than waiting for a doctor or dentist is waiting for an attorney! - i would like to be her client - when she left me sitting there for an hour i would sue her - she would probably be outraged - vulchers.....

Ripsnort · « **Reply #4 on:** January 12, 2001, 02:58:00 PM »

Hmm, me wonders if her husband has to 'pay her for her time...'...

TheWobble · « **Reply #5 on:** January 12, 2001, 04:34:00 PM »

I had my ear blown almost completly off due to an act of stupidity and i still had to sit and wait for about 30 min in the emergency room in Houston.

Gotta loe a doctors office.
1 Ya got the 3 year old Highlights and outdoorsman magazines that the dog has pissed on.

2. that funky doctor office quietness and smell

3. ya get to sit on butcherpaper.

AKDejaVu · « **Reply #6 on:** January 12, 2001, 05:02:00 PM »

Have to say my doctor doesn't fit into any of these categories.

Everytime I or my wife have called him, we've been told to come in early the next morning and always get right in. I've never had to spend more than 5 minutes in the waiting room (wich was stocked with the most current magazines).

Everything I've gone to the doc for, he's given me the apropriate medication to remedy/comfort me. From strep throat to bronchitis to a nasty bug-bight that caused some dangerous swelling. I have no complaints.

As a matter of fact, I had a blood workup done once due to being tired all the time inspite of adequate sleep. He called me on Sunday to ask me to come back in Monday because he was going over my workup and had some concerns.

Its all just a matter of perspective.

AKDejaVu

DrSoya · « **Reply #7 on:** January 12, 2001, 05:52:00 PM »

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Originally posted by AKDejaVu:
Its all just a matter of perspective.

LOL! That's a good one.

DrSoya

1776 · « **Reply #8 on:** January 13, 2001, 12:14:00 AM »

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Originally posted by TheWobble:
I had my ear blown almost completly off due to an act of stupidity and i still had to sit and wait for about 30 min in the emergency room in Houston.

Gotta loe a doctors office.
1 Ya got the 3 year old Highlights and outdoorsman magazines that the dog has pissed on.

2. that funky doctor office quietness and smell

3. ya get to sit on butcherpaper.

So, What Vet clinic is this,Wobble:?

TheWobble · « **Reply #9 on:** January 13, 2001, 12:36:00 AM »

It was a hospital in houston, I was I think 10 or 11, a friend of mine was an idiot and had clamped a 22 rimfire cartrige in a vice and squashed it flat, right as i was walking in he picked up a screw driver and started tapping it on the top, right as i turned away BOOM, i didnt even feel anything i just grabbed my ears from the noise, but when i removed my right hand my ear was dangleing by the lobe, apparently a chunk of the casing has sliced through it, anywho i waited with my flopping ear for like 30 min in the E-room.

MrBill · « **Reply #10 on:** January 13, 2001, 01:02:00 AM »

"Its all just a matter of perspective."

True

Western doctors "practice" (oops! sorry that was just a test) medicine ... oriental healers heal people.

The west has just recently come to the conclusion that those herb pushing, pin sticking, chain smoking, nearly cancer free, backward, barbarians might just have something there

Hope that they quit the practicing soon and start healing ... this alone will alleviate those long waiting room visits

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Dinger · « **Reply #11 on:** January 13, 2001, 01:39:00 AM »

Heck, with our health-care system the way it is, doctors (especially in HMOs) have appointments stacked up in 15-minute intervals. What if the doctor sees something serious? Then you wait.

Any of you have an idea how bad health insurance has gotten these days? Do you know how much time the doctor has to spend trying to educate those MBAs at the insurance company on what they are legally required to cover?

Surprise, our tort-happy legal system has made doctors cost a helluva lot more than anywhere else, so guess what the hospitals cut? Everything else. With practically no support staff, of course those appointments are gonna stack up.

Remember, when you go into that parking lot, for every amazinhunk's mercedes that you see, there are 10 others that you don't, and nine of them don't belong to MDs.

God Bless Amurrica.

TheWobble · « **Reply #12 on:** January 13, 2001, 01:51:00 AM »

I would much rather step into a state of the art american hospital to have a tumor removed that some backwoods bamboo shack and let some villige medicine man chop me up for his "god"

You ever compare the cases suffered to the number cured between American hospitals and that other "natural herb stuff" you will see why it isnt here. You see it make headlines because once in a while it actually works on somebody, but the other 200 that suffered and died even with this majical treatment makes no news because its the norm not the exception.