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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]They need to stop over scheduling and understand that everyone’s time is valuable, not just theirs.  Stop telling me you’ll cancel my appointment if I’m 15 minutes late and then make me wait for 30 minutes minimum when I’m on time.[/quote]

Sounds like your time is so valuable you have the resources to go out into the marketplace to pay for a higher level of service. You should probably do that.

I’m the meantime, sit down with a piece of paper and game out the cascading effect of a few people being “15 minutes.”[/quote]

Of course you're right - it's only people who pay for a higher level of service who should expect to be seen at the time of their appointment.  Punctuality isn't the baseline, it's a extra.

Give me a break.

The point the PP was making, what seems to have been lost on you, is that it is hypocritical to insist that patients be on time while simultaneously routinely being late yourself.  And then shrugging your shoulders and saying, "Well, geez, it happens!  What was I to do?"
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Oh yes, the point was so elaborate.

Look, I am sorry you have difficulty with space time continuums and can't figure out that patients are habitually and routinely late. I am sorry you also cannot figure out the basics of general practice and how scheduling works.

The doctor in the scenario you are painting is late 99.9% of the time because some person or series of persons who can't be bothered to 1) show up on time, 2) not bring up unrelated things during an appointment, 3) some combination of 1 and 2, 4) a big stack of their own research. The examples go on and on and on.

If you thinking waiting in the US is bad, give a nationalized health care system a whirl in a country of similar complexity as ours. You know, where healthcare "is a right." I am confident you won't like the outcome. Just like you would not like the treatment options if whatever disease you have is very likely to be terminal. [/quote]

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