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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am 100% with you, OP. I am so tired of the social acceptance that doctors can keep you waiting an hour plus - all because they over schedule the same time slots. It is the sh$ttiest practice model and we all seem to take it over and over again. I have zero sympathy for most practices, as I've yet to have a doctor who was genuinely remorseful or sympathetic that a patient had been left in a waiting room to waste their valuable time.

I'm an attorney. I can promise you that if I left a client waiting for 45 minutes, they'd find another atty - and with good reason. We should not be shelling out money to professionals who disrespects their entire client base day in and day out.

And all of this "but it was an emergency!" BS. No, it is not an emergency every day. It is a culture of overbooking. Period. [/quote]

I'm sure you are a good attorney.  But you clearly don't understand what medical providers' work lives are like. DOCTORS don't "keep you waiting over an hour." They practices they work for create scheduling templates that are simply impossible to keep running on time.  And practice managers/administration know this.  So you might say - well go work someplace that doesn't overschedule.  But outside of concierge practices those systems don't exist.  Unless they are solo practitioners the people your beef is with is  the administration and practice managers for pretty much every practice out there. I don't know any medical providers who feel their schedule is reasonable, and I know a lot of people in healthcare.[/quote]

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