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Originally Posted by biker1
You might be willing to justify and accept bad behavior by medical offices but I am not. It is rude and unprofessional and the only reason an office gets away with it is because patients roll over and let them. I will allow that emergencies happen but that is not what we are talking about. Class operations, such as the Mayo Clinic (where I have been more than once), do not keep patients waiting because they do not overbook. My limit is 20 mins and then I will leave. My last Dr. didn't keep me waiting, ever. We will see how it plays out here in The Villages but my one visit so far (to meet the Dr.) was on time. My two dental visits so far have been on time. If you want to put medical offices up on a pedestal and let them waste your time that is your business but please don't suggest that it is normal or acceptable behavior for the rest of us because it isn't. By the way, airlines and hotels do not overbook "all the time". In fact, overbyooking by airlines is now a relatively rare event, which is actually too bad as I enjoyed volunteering in the past for a free ticket. Regarding hotels, I have only seen it once in the 20 years when I traveled frequently for business.
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This is not to condone doctors who make wait more than 15-20 minutes. I don't like it either. Our time has value, too.
But if you want the current shortage of primary care, private-practice, self-employed doctors to get a whole lot worse, just keep insulting their efforts and sacrifice of personal/family life by comparing
their practice to
research hospitals like Mayo, which has over 2,000 residents in training to take care of the emergencies of your doctor's patients there.
I do NOT think a 3-12 hour drive to research-teaching hospitals like Mayo--for primary care or even common specialist visits--is the answer to saving patients time in getting routine medical care.
Mayo Clinic - MN Campus
2012 Statistics
Staff physicians and scientists: 2,158
Residents, fellows and students: 2,899
Allied health staff (clinic and hospital): 29,166
Total: 34,223
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