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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I had an Ortho show up 40 minutes late once. I was his first appointment of the day. I saw him arrive while sitting in the waiting room. I asked him why I was kept waiting so long and he lied and said he’d been stuck with another patient. I told him that I saw him walk past me with his coat on his arm and a cup of coffee.. Never went back to him again. This was at CAO Ortho in foxhall. [/quote]

If he is an ortho surgeon he might have been held up doing rounds prior to going to his practice.  Some of you don't seem to understand what doctors do.[/quote]

So...poor scheduling. Allocate more time for rounds.

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Allocate more time from where? They can’t control if 7 new ortho patients got admitted overnight and suddenly they are rounding on 12 patients instead of 5. Or 20 instead of 5. [/quote]

Start office hours later on hospital days.

It's not that hard to figure out.  :roll: 
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Wow.  We are a family of physicians who work like dogs, with a no break and through lunch.

No wonder we have less physicians.  With the number of lawsuits, lack of insurance reimbursement, and disgruntle patients, it's really a thankless job.[/quote]

Fewer physicians in the DMV area?  I think not but, yes, in rural areas because you can't make the money that you make here.  If you think it's a thankless job, quit.

I am fed up with the Doctor as God and how you are doing us a favor by seeing patients.  When you start paying me to be your patient then you can treat me like dirt.  As long as I am paying you then I expect professionalism.  [/quote]
My husband is a physician. We can make way more money in the rural areas. Rural areas have to pay more for some specialists to attract them. So, you’re not familiar with the current environment at all. It has nothing to do with the number of patients, it has to do with insurance.  Rural areas pay better than DC for many physicians. [/quote]

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