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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

and why do they overbook? Because people expect- no, demand!- to see a doctor for every little thing, and a specialist half the time at that. If you want them to see fewer patients, expect that you won’t ever get an appointment unless you’re aboht to die, and even then it will be for 2 weeks from now. [/quote]

Then vet the patients. It is really not that difficult. I'm tired of all the excuses for why doctors are incompetent at running a business. 
I vet my clients before a consult. Why can't they? Private practice can absolutely refuse service. They can also charge fees for services. If I have a PITA client, I charge for all the services.

I pay out of pocket for a concierge GP service and LOVE it. It absolutely can be done. Doctors are just greedy. [/quote]
Please explain “vet them”. Like turn them away if they don’t pay what the doctor wants? You may get away with that in your law practice, but a doctor can’t. It’s not ethical. That’s probably really hard for you to understand. [/quote]

Firstly, that's not true at all. Doctors are not ethically required to accept all patients. That's only incumbent on ERs. Try going to a plastic surgeon and explaining that you cannot pay the fees. They 100% can turn you away. And practices turn away bad fit patients all the time. This is not hard to understand.

But instead of over scheduling every single patient, [b]they can triage through nursing, virtual appointments, tel consults, etc. when necessary. There are about a dozen different modern options available through technology which any medical practice can implement to provide services at different price points, convenience levels and urgency needs.[/b] BUT they don't. Because they can charge for every head that comes in.

Not rocket science, and clearly not difficult for anyone to understand. [/quote]

Wait -- do you think that if a patient is booked for just one thing, then that is all you deal with in the visit?[/quote]

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