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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No excuse for you showing up 10 minutes late to a doctor appointment and expecting zero consequences.[/quote]

Sheesh, 10 minutes is not a lot. There should be a grace period or a better explanation of why kid can’t be seen. If it’s a sick visit, they should squeeze the kid in. Have some sympathy for frazzled, busy parents[/quote]

It does sound like OP wants it both ways.  To be able to run 10min late to a 15min appointment, and to have the doctors have to stay well beyond their hours because everyone was running late.  Practices need to run on time to accommodate the next patients, otherwise late patients will either be unfairly canceled or doctors will never be able to leave.  It sucks that our healthcare systems makes it so doctors have to see 40+ patients a day for the economics to work, but when that’s the reality you can’t get off schedule and starting a 15min appt 10min late is off schedule [/quote]

I appreciate your comment but to be clear I don’t think my post implies that I want it both ways. I made a sick appointment for my child at 9am when the practice opened that day and was told that I was not the only one booked for that time slot and to expect a long wait. I arrived at the appointment and was told that the doctor couldn’t see my child because she was running late which I can assume was because they were over-booked with sick appointments for that particular day. I didn’t receive a call before I arrived to let me know (in advance of leaving my home with a sick toddler) that my child wouldn’t be seen. I think any parent/patient would find that unacceptable. [/quote]

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