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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Doctors have reasons they are late, and so do patients. You should not assume yours are valid and the patient’s are not.

At least have your office call people in advance when you know you are running way late. And for God’s sake apologize to those who came on time and have been waiting for a half hour or more . And if you are going to charge those who are delayed, you need to pay your waiting patients when you are delayed. You are really not the only busy, important person in this equation, whose time has value. [/quote]

Do you want an apology, or do you want an explanation?

Doctor's reasons for being late are usually other patients, not their own reason. Are the other patients not as valid as you?[/quote]

You could factor such delays into your schedule, especially  since you claim they are common and to be expected.  Instead you book us back to back, because you don’t want to lose a dime of time. So we lose time (and often money). [/quote]

Do you know any places where you can get in to see your primary doctor without an inordinately long wait? Just curious. Please share the name, if so.[/quote]

Sure.  One Medical.  [/quote]

I can call today with an acute concern and guarantee to be seen today by my MD, not another MD, or an NP or PA? [/quote]

But what’s the acute concern?  If it’s something like a possible infection, they’re not going to waste the MD’s time when an NP or PA can handle it. [/quote]

They're not going to waste the doctor's time on something that might give you sepsis. What is the doctor focusing on? [/quote]

Do you know what the chances are that an ingrown toenail infection is going to cause you to become septic?  It is infinitesimally small.

Again, here is the problem. People who have no scientific/medical knowledge demanding that they see an Md and no one else because they may become septic from a small localized infection. It’s just not a realistic expectation. [/quote]

Jim Henson's death from strep still haunts me.

Given you have great scientific knowledge explain to me what cases the doctor is handling. Anything complex is handled by specialists. [b]From my last experience they were ticking off that I'd had all my cancer screenings and looking at the blood pressure reading that the assistant had taken in a way that broke the guidelines.[/b]

We've been warned above that we're in danger from PAs and NPs, yet they're at the front line dealing with acute complaints of patients potentially suffering from meningitis, strep, staph, stroke etc.[/quote]

This is probably a lot of what they’re doing. Also dealing with medically complex patients that are on multiple meds, checking to see if they need their meds changes/adjusted because of side effects and interactions. Stuff like that. Regularly scheduled patients.

My point was they’re not going to bump one of these patients to deal with an ingrown toenail. The PA can deal with that. The MD is needed for the other patients that take more time.

Are you saying that you’d rather the MD bump that patient for your toe?  Or run even later because of it?[/quote]

Ideally it would be good to have a percentage of appointments for routine health monitoring and a percentage for urgent issues. This seemed to be the system at the pediatricians when my kids were younger. [/quote]

Can we think of any reasons why they wouldn't do that, since it seems like the obvious solution?

If your average primary care doctor has about 3000 patients, are there just not physically enough slots available? Or is it that they try, but they get filled up too fast so there aren't enough left over? How does this work?[/quote]

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