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[quote=Anonymous]"My argument is that inconveniences like long waits and office environment are not the markers of bad patient care, which, up until you responded was what we were discussing."

I'm not going to copy and paste the whole thing, but why do you think the above is true?  To people who don't have hours to wait for their healthcare providers, yes, long waits become bad care.  If the office environment is such that it ignores patient privacy, or doesn't facilitate communication between front office staff and providers, yes, it becomes bad care.

The quality of healthcare is, to me, comprehensive (and most organizations who research that construct agree).  Some aspects of care may be more salient than others, but it all goes into determining quality.  Also, if you look at the first page of this thread, most of the women described some version of wanting personalized attention/being listened.  One woman on the second page talked about wait times, clearly mentioning that she had experience working as a medical assistant in an OB practice, i.e., it was an informed decision.  Why are you focusing on wait times as the reason to argue that the women on this thread can't tell what defines quality care when what PPs are actually mentioning is providers paying attention to them?[/quote]

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