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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You know they’re often late because they’re helping someone else, right?  And that someone else will sometimes be you.

My DC’s psychiatrist is often so crazy late we joke about it, but you know what? I know he’s been late because he is dealing with another patient’s suicide attempt. When he is w/ my DC, he spends whatever time is necessary, so probs we make him late for someone else.

In my DC’s busy, university-teaching clinic pediatrics practice, there have been times when the supervising doctor has had the entire clinic of residents troop into our room to see something unusual and give a mini-lesson on it. I’m sure that made the whole clinic late. But, next time those residents see you, they’ll recognize something they wouldn’t otherwise.

I can think of dozens of times we went to the doc expecting to take care of some illness or sickness quickly and it turned out to be more complicated or require more discussion than I thought.

You know what is required to run a clinic on time - docs who will say “sorry I don’t have time to answer your question” “sorry I don’t have time to do a more thorough exam” “sorry I don’t have time to discuss a referral” “sorry your problem is more complicated than the 15 minute slot you reserved, so you’ll have to make another appointment and come back to finish another time, etc.”

BTW, you have serious anxiety (or entitlement?) problems if you think 45 mins at a doctor’s office is worth blowing a gasket over. Yes, your time is valuable but other people’s lives are also valuable.  Either that (anxiety)  or you and your children have led an extraordinarily charmed life if your experience has been pediatric visits are all 15 min. pop-in/pop-out never break the schedule things.  So far.

Please see a therapist about your anxiety. [/quote]

Interesting. Sounds like you all have a lot of complex health issues. Am glad you don’t mind the wait, given how often you are in. [/quote]

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