I am not insulting anybody - not sure where you got that from - reread my post. I am objecting to any office that books appointments under the assumption that patients have nothing better to do then wait. As I indicated, I understand that emergencies can happen. My point is there are practices that don't routinely waste patient's time. If people stopped accepting bad behavior perhaps it would become less common. My visits to Mayo (in Jacksonville, not Minnesota, which is about 2+ hours away) were for an orthopedic problem and there were two issues that drove me there: waiting beyond my scheduled appointment time at two sports medicine practices and their inability to diagnose and repair the problem. Neither of these issues existed at Mayo. This was when I lived closer to Mayo. I also know people who go there for what many might consider routine stuff because of the way the place is run (i.e. patient scheduling) and that really has nothing to do with how many people work there. The orthopedic guy saw me on time (for multiple consult, and pre- and post-op visits) because they schedule enough time for each appointment. The nature of the operation at the Mayo is such that they need to do this because often a patient will have multiple appointments in a single day and chaos would break out if each appointment was not taken on time.
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Originally Posted by sunnyatlast
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.
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