S/o What the f do you all want from doctors?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Doctors have reasons they are late, and so do patients. You should not assume yours are valid and the patient’s are not.

At least have your office call people in advance when you know you are running way late. And for God’s sake apologize to those who came on time and have been waiting for a half hour or more . And if you are going to charge those who are delayed, you need to pay your waiting patients when you are delayed. You are really not the only busy, important person in this equation, whose time has value.

The charge is there as a deterrent. JFC people are dumb.

If this is the level of intelligence you can bring to this problem, I can assure you your time is not that valuable. I guess you won’t be buying concierge medicine to avoid wasting your highly valuable time.

The nasty teenager is back.

[Anonymous]

Posters:

Why are doctors running late

Posters:

My doctors doesn’t spend enough time with me.

Which do you want? If doctors take the time to listen, they will be behind. There are booked for 15 mins which includes the vitals.

[Anonymous]

DP. If they are in a larger practice, they have limited control over how patients are booked. That's dictated by the group they work for.

When they strike out on their own and do have control over their schedule, they book longer visits, spend more time with patients, don't run behind, and usually charge additional fees because they are not sharing overhead.

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If you have found the unicorn doctor that manages to do all that while working in a larger group and not taking concierge fees, please sing their praises by name. Surely you do not mind if several thousand people find out and sign up with them, because how could that go badly for you?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Posters:

Why are doctors running late

Posters:

My doctors doesn’t spend enough time with me.

Which do you want? If doctors take the time to listen, they will be behind. There are booked for 15 mins which includes the vitals.

Sorry, you are stirring up ZERO sympathy out here. Perhaps because you seem to despise patients.

Do us and yourself a favor: change professions.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Posters:

Why are doctors running late

Posters:

My doctors doesn’t spend enough time with me.

Which do you want? If doctors take the time to listen, they will be behind. There are booked for 15 mins which includes the vitals.

If your whole model is based on you not having the time to do the work, at some point you’re not really doing the work, are you?

That’s what the f we all want from doctors: for them to get loud enough about it to CHANGE IT.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Posters:

Why are doctors running late

Posters:

My doctors doesn’t spend enough time with me.

Which do you want? If doctors take the time to listen, they will be behind. There are booked for 15 mins which includes the vitals.

Surely you can see why patients are frustrated. Waiting an hour to have minimal time with a doctor IS frustrating. Perhaps it’s the nature of the profession, but that doesn’t change the level of frustration patients can feel.

There are many comments here about doctors’ demeanor. If you’re going to be late and you can’t spend a lot of time with a patient, at least be pleasant.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Doctors have reasons they are late, and so do patients. You should not assume yours are valid and the patient’s are not.

At least have your office call people in advance when you know you are running way late. And for God’s sake apologize to those who came on time and have been waiting for a half hour or more . And if you are going to charge those who are delayed, you need to pay your waiting patients when you are delayed. You are really not the only busy, important person in this equation, whose time has value.

The charge is there as a deterrent. JFC people are dumb.

If this is the level of intelligence you can bring to this problem, I can assure you your time is not that valuable. I guess you won’t be buying concierge medicine to avoid wasting your highly valuable time.

Well, deterrence and greed. But what is our option if we bill by the hour and your delay (which I have seen can be caused by eating the free food delivered by a drug rep) costs us money??

I guess our deterrence is publishing a bad review online. But we have no way to recoup our loss. Have that ever even crossed your self-important brain?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Doctors have reasons they are late, and so do patients. You should not assume yours are valid and the patient’s are not.

At least have your office call people in advance when you know you are running way late. And for God’s sake apologize to those who came on time and have been waiting for a half hour or more . And if you are going to charge those who are delayed, you need to pay your waiting patients when you are delayed. You are really not the only busy, important person in this equation, whose time has value.

Do you want an apology, or do you want an explanation?

Doctor's reasons for being late are usually other patients, not their own reason. Are the other patients not as valid as you?

You could factor such delays into your schedule, especially since you claim they are common and to be expected. Instead you book us back to back, because you don’t want to lose a dime of time. So we lose time (and often money).

[Anonymous]

What might have happened in the last few years that has burned out healthcare workers and, because of attrition in their workforce, made the workload even worse and even more difficult to take time away for self care?

I don't know, but there was something I read somewhere. I'm sure of it.

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And if your doctor is fabulous and only works 3 or 4 days a week so they can take all the vacations they want, please give the reference here so patients can find them. Thanks.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Doctors have reasons they are late, and so do patients. You should not assume yours are valid and the patient’s are not.

At least have your office call people in advance when you know you are running way late. And for God’s sake apologize to those who came on time and have been waiting for a half hour or more . And if you are going to charge those who are delayed, you need to pay your waiting patients when you are delayed. You are really not the only busy, important person in this equation, whose time has value.

Do you want an apology, or do you want an explanation?

Doctor's reasons for being late are usually other patients, not their own reason. Are the other patients not as valid as you?

You could factor such delays into your schedule, especially since you claim they are common and to be expected. Instead you book us back to back, because you don’t want to lose a dime of time. So we lose time (and often money).

Do you know any places where you can get in to see your primary doctor without an inordinately long wait? Just curious. Please share the name, if so.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Posters:

Why are doctors running late

Posters:

My doctors doesn’t spend enough time with me.

Which do you want? If doctors take the time to listen, they will be behind. There are booked for 15 mins which includes the vitals.

Sorry, you are stirring up ZERO sympathy out here. Perhaps because you seem to despise patients.

Do us and yourself a favor: change professions.

NP
Sorry, you’re stuck with us. And we hate dealing with needy people like you as much as you hate us. Oh well.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Posters:

Why are doctors running late

Posters:

My doctors doesn’t spend enough time with me.

Which do you want? If doctors take the time to listen, they will be behind. There are booked for 15 mins which includes the vitals.

If your whole model is based on you not having the time to do the work, at some point you’re not really doing the work, are you?

That’s what the f we all want from doctors: for them to get loud enough about it to CHANGE IT.

How? You seem to think there is a way to do it, or that doctors can. You seem to be a citizen in a country going down in flames, politically -- so why haven't you CHANGED IT? why haven't you FIXED AMERICA?

Maybe because you can't, even you are a part of it. But yeah, nobody outside the country can fix America, either. Not so far.

[Anonymous]

^^

You know what changing it looks like? Concierge medicine. That works like gangbusters.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Doctors have reasons they are late, and so do patients. You should not assume yours are valid and the patient’s are not.

At least have your office call people in advance when you know you are running way late. And for God’s sake apologize to those who came on time and have been waiting for a half hour or more . And if you are going to charge those who are delayed, you need to pay your waiting patients when you are delayed. You are really not the only busy, important person in this equation, whose time has value.

Do you want an apology, or do you want an explanation?

Doctor's reasons for being late are usually other patients, not their own reason. Are the other patients not as valid as you?

You could factor such delays into your schedule, especially since you claim they are common and to be expected. Instead you book us back to back, because you don’t want to lose a dime of time. So we lose time (and often money).

Jesus lord you people are thick. You CANNOT factor delays like that into the schedule because they are usually random and unexpected. And with overhead you will not be able to stay afloat seeing so few patients a day. And I mean AFLOAT, not “raking in the big bucks.” It will not work. It’s never ever ever going to happen. Unless you pay concierge you will be stuck waiting.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:^^

You know what changing it looks like? Concierge medicine. That works like gangbusters.

No no no. These people DESERVE all the benefits of concierge medicine without paying for it!