CrohnieToo wrote:

DON'T get me started on cooling my heels in some inconsiderate educated idiot's office 2 hours after my scheduled appointment time!!! I've walked out, and NOT QUIETLY from the offices of such arrogant, inconsiderate, insufferable arses. Oh, I remember my doctor shopping experiences when my family doctor died. I remember them all too well!!

I had a good friend who worked for one of the drug companies and she often gave me copies of some of the trade magazines. I well remember more than one article on how important appearances are to good business practice: doctors must maintain an impressive office in a good area, they must overbook appointments, heaven forbid a patient should see an empty or half empty waiting room, it would give the impression the doctor wasn't very good 'cause he didn't have a full waiting room, blah, blah, blah. Honest injun!! One must create the impression of success if one wants to be successful.

Yes, but what a specialist? They know good and well that a lot of people arent going to leave for another specialist 2.5 hours down the road. Some will, but most will not. You can prove this theory if you have ever had to wait and I see that you have.

It is sad, but waiting seems to be part of the game (most of the time at most places... NOT all).

One thing that CAN help w/this, even w/a specialist, is to ask if the long wait and delay after your scheduled appointment time is due to an emergency or if the delay is SOP and asked loud enough to be overheard by other waiting patients w/o being obnoxious or obvious.

The one I LOVED tho was the little old man who stood up in a room full of waiting patients in a Urologist's office and asked very loudly if there were any live doctors in the office or were they all still out on the golf course!!! It actually brought not only a laugh but a round of applause from the room.


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