Terrible experience at Foxhall pediatrics

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Don't go there again. Problem solved.

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Friendship Pediatrics is amazing! Only like 1 0 min drive from Foxhall. Highly recommend.

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Anonymous wrote:No excuse for you showing up 10 minutes late to a doctor appointment and expecting zero consequences.

Is this a serious post? It's unusual to be seen in only 10 minutes at most places. I would laugh out loud if they tried to charge me for being 10 minutes late. I know most doctors think they're really special, but their time is NOT more valuable than mine.

You're the one seeking them out, not the other way around.

Go back to Foxhall and leave us alone!!!

The (multiple) people disagreeing with you don’t work there. You sound very immature. Grow up.

I’m pretty sure you’re the lone commenter disagreeing with people’s actual experiences. I’m not the OP and I see multiple people with similar experiences at this office. I don’t know what your interest is here, but it’s clearly not to share your experiences or to suggest a better practice for people’s children to attend.

You’re “pretty sure” incorrectly. There are replies disagreeing that aren’t mine. Feel free to ask Jeff, if you have that little of a life.

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Anonymous wrote:No excuse for you showing up 10 minutes late to a doctor appointment and expecting zero consequences.

This is a ridiculous post when literally every doctor's appointment I've ever had runs 10 to 30 minutes late. The doctors can be excused for being late for appointments you can be excused once for being late. I've left 30 minutes before I need to sometimes and because of an accident closing down a road or rain or whatever it's not enough time.

I waited 1.5 hours with a sick child once, no-one waved our co-pay in lieu of a late fee.

Yep! The day a doctor's office tries to charge a fee for being 10 minutes late is the day I start charging them in return.

They’re not paying you. You have no power. Bye.

Wow are you the PP that claimed to be a pediatrician? Unbelievable. You do realize that the poster does have power because they can choose to spend their money elsewhere. There are many pediatric practices in the District and neighboring counties and thankfully many people in the profession don’t behave like you! What are you thinking?

Nope.

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Anonymous wrote:No excuse for you showing up 10 minutes late to a doctor appointment and expecting zero consequences.

This is a ridiculous post when literally every doctor's appointment I've ever had runs 10 to 30 minutes late. The doctors can be excused for being late for appointments you can be excused once for being late. I've left 30 minutes before I need to sometimes and because of an accident closing down a road or rain or whatever it's not enough time.

I waited 1.5 hours with a sick child once, no-one waved our co-pay in lieu of a late fee.

Yep! The day a doctor's office tries to charge a fee for being 10 minutes late is the day I start charging them in return.

They’re not paying you. You have no power. Bye.

Wow the Foxhall staff is all over this forum.

Once again, we aren’t the staff. I do not now, nor have I ever, worked in any role in the medical field or a medical office. There are a minimum of us replying.

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Anonymous wrote:No excuse for you showing up 10 minutes late to a doctor appointment and expecting zero consequences.

This is a ridiculous post when literally every doctor's appointment I've ever had runs 10 to 30 minutes late. The doctors can be excused for being late for appointments you can be excused once for being late. I've left 30 minutes before I need to sometimes and because of an accident closing down a road or rain or whatever it's not enough time.

I waited 1.5 hours with a sick child once, no-one waved our co-pay in lieu of a late fee.

Yep! The day a doctor's office tries to charge a fee for being 10 minutes late is the day I start charging them in return.

They’re not paying you. You have no power. Bye.

Pediatricians are a dime a dozen. Bye to you!

I’m not a pediatrician. But I hope that little rush of dopamine made you feel powerful. LOL!

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Anonymous wrote:Friendship Pediatrics is amazing! Only like 1 0 min drive from Foxhall. Highly recommend.

agreed. you have to wait 15-20 minutes for each visit despite having an appointment but the staff and the doctors are great

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Anonymous wrote:No excuse for you showing up 10 minutes late to a doctor appointment and expecting zero consequences.

This is a ridiculous post when literally every doctor's appointment I've ever had runs 10 to 30 minutes late. The doctors can be excused for being late for appointments you can be excused once for being late. I've left 30 minutes before I need to sometimes and because of an accident closing down a road or rain or whatever it's not enough time.

I waited 1.5 hours with a sick child once, no-one waved our co-pay in lieu of a late fee.

Yep! The day a doctor's office tries to charge a fee for being 10 minutes late is the day I start charging them in return.

They’re not paying you. You have no power. Bye.

Pediatricians are a dime a dozen. Bye to you!

I’m not a pediatrician. But I hope that little rush of dopamine made you feel powerful. LOL!

What rush? I’m just stating a fact. If I have a poor experience at one service provider I’ll just go elsewhere next time. You can stay and tolerate poor service all you want, LOL.

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Anonymous wrote:No excuse for you showing up 10 minutes late to a doctor appointment and expecting zero consequences.

This is a ridiculous post when literally every doctor's appointment I've ever had runs 10 to 30 minutes late. The doctors can be excused for being late for appointments you can be excused once for being late. I've left 30 minutes before I need to sometimes and because of an accident closing down a road or rain or whatever it's not enough time.

I waited 1.5 hours with a sick child once, no-one waved our co-pay in lieu of a late fee.

Yep! The day a doctor's office tries to charge a fee for being 10 minutes late is the day I start charging them in return.

They’re not paying you. You have no power. Bye.

Luckily for all of us, you have no power here. So I'll pass on your cute little dismissal attempt.

[Anonymous]

I know I won’t be back to Foxhall. The staff there is a mess.

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Anonymous wrote:No excuse for you showing up 10 minutes late to a doctor appointment and expecting zero consequences.

Sheesh, 10 minutes is not a lot. There should be a grace period or a better explanation of why kid can’t be seen. If it’s a sick visit, they should squeeze the kid in. Have some sympathy for frazzled, busy parents

It does sound like OP wants it both ways. To be able to run 10min late to a 15min appointment, and to have the doctors have to stay well beyond their hours because everyone was running late. Practices need to run on time to accommodate the next patients, otherwise late patients will either be unfairly canceled or doctors will never be able to leave. It sucks that our healthcare systems makes it so doctors have to see 40+ patients a day for the economics to work, but when that’s the reality you can’t get off schedule and starting a 15min appt 10min late is off schedule

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Anonymous wrote:No excuse for you showing up 10 minutes late to a doctor appointment and expecting zero consequences.

Sheesh, 10 minutes is not a lot. There should be a grace period or a better explanation of why kid can’t be seen. If it’s a sick visit, they should squeeze the kid in. Have some sympathy for frazzled, busy parents

It does sound like OP wants it both ways. To be able to run 10min late to a 15min appointment, and to have the doctors have to stay well beyond their hours because everyone was running late. Practices need to run on time to accommodate the next patients, otherwise late patients will either be unfairly canceled or doctors will never be able to leave. It sucks that our healthcare systems makes it so doctors have to see 40+ patients a day for the economics to work, but when that’s the reality you can’t get off schedule and starting a 15min appt 10min late is off schedule

My ped makes it work just fine. Sometimes they see me 15 minutes early, sometimes 20 minutes late. They get grave from me because they give it too. I try to arrive 5-15 minutes early and I don’t think I’ve ever been more than 5 minutes late and the staff are perfectly pleasant every time I’ve interacted with them. CP&A Capitol Hill.

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Anonymous wrote:No excuse for you showing up 10 minutes late to a doctor appointment and expecting zero consequences.

Sheesh, 10 minutes is not a lot. There should be a grace period or a better explanation of why kid can’t be seen. If it’s a sick visit, they should squeeze the kid in. Have some sympathy for frazzled, busy parents

It does sound like OP wants it both ways. To be able to run 10min late to a 15min appointment, and to have the doctors have to stay well beyond their hours because everyone was running late. Practices need to run on time to accommodate the next patients, otherwise late patients will either be unfairly canceled or doctors will never be able to leave. It sucks that our healthcare systems makes it so doctors have to see 40+ patients a day for the economics to work, but when that’s the reality you can’t get off schedule and starting a 15min appt 10min late is off schedule

My ped makes it work just fine. Sometimes they see me 15 minutes early, sometimes 20 minutes late. They get grave from me because they give it too. I try to arrive 5-15 minutes early and I don’t think I’ve ever been more than 5 minutes late and the staff are perfectly pleasant every time I’ve interacted with them. CP&A Capitol Hill.

It sounds like your ped makes it work bc you are never more than a couple min late - which is great!

All I’m saying is that’s it’s nice when they can accommodate late people, but also understandable why they can’t given the economics of a practice don’t allow for open gaps and needs of other patients and the doctor to run on time

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Anonymous wrote:Don't go there again. Problem solved.

This. D.C is a very saturated market for pediatrics. I would not ever put my child in the care of a practice that would turn a sick child away from scheduled appointment— it’s irresponsible and it demonstrates that the practice doesn’t actually care about the patients.

For the people acting as though patients are supposed to act as though doctors do us a favor by taking our money, this is why so many of us now use concierge practices. My appointments start on time, and my provider takes 30 minutes with me, and actually makes her priority my outcomes. I would not accept less for my child.

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Anonymous wrote:No excuse for you showing up 10 minutes late to a doctor appointment and expecting zero consequences.

Sheesh, 10 minutes is not a lot. There should be a grace period or a better explanation of why kid can’t be seen. If it’s a sick visit, they should squeeze the kid in. Have some sympathy for frazzled, busy parents

It does sound like OP wants it both ways. To be able to run 10min late to a 15min appointment, and to have the doctors have to stay well beyond their hours because everyone was running late. Practices need to run on time to accommodate the next patients, otherwise late patients will either be unfairly canceled or doctors will never be able to leave. It sucks that our healthcare systems makes it so doctors have to see 40+ patients a day for the economics to work, but when that’s the reality you can’t get off schedule and starting a 15min appt 10min late is off schedule

I appreciate your comment but to be clear I don’t think my post implies that I want it both ways. I made a sick appointment for my child at 9am when the practice opened that day and was told that I was not the only one booked for that time slot and to expect a long wait. I arrived at the appointment and was told that the doctor couldn’t see my child because she was running late which I can assume was because they were over-booked with sick appointments for that particular day. I didn’t receive a call before I arrived to let me know (in advance of leaving my home with a sick toddler) that my child wouldn’t be seen. I think any parent/patient would find that unacceptable.