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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'll be the first to call BS on this guy needing to see patients. Unless he's traveling home and has appointments, I think folks are under the false impression that he's so special that he flies to see his patients.

I'd like to be proven wrong. Just kidding, nobody like's being proven wrong.

His bio should be out shortly I'd imagine.[/quote]

Um, the whole point was that he was flying home and had patients scheduled for today. [/quote]

He shouldn't have been flying home on the same day he had appointments, that's really not that responsible. Especially flying during the spring months which can have hell-storm weather leading to delays.

Book smart, but maybe not too street smart.[/quote]

Yes! Down with the little people who fly home from vacations on Sundays in order to go to work on Monday. Oh wait, that was 99% of the plane's passengers...[/quote]

If I have an event I _must_ be at, I always fly a day earlier than normal just to account for flight delays. For example, I'll do this if I'm speaking at a conference or I'm in someone's wedding.

I don't need to do this often since it's usually not that bad if I arrive a day late.. [/quote]

So if you are speaking at a conference on a Thursday morning, you leave on a Tuesday, just in case there are flight delays? If so, my god, you have got to unclench. That's a ridiculous thing to do, and it's EXTRA ridiculous to expect other people to pay for an extra night of hotel just in case there are delays in travel. Leaving the afternoon before should have been plenty of time.[/quote]

Yes, and it's saved me more than once. Once I was coming from Europe and flight arrived a bit late into Chicago, and passport control lines took over an hour (this was before Global Entry) so I missed the last flight of the day to Las Vegas. Another time while flying in the US, there was a major snowstorm and all flights were cancelled that day.

Heck, look at people flying Delta through Atlanta last week: http://www.cnn.com/2017/04/07/business/storms-delta-cancellations/ 
3,000 flights cancelled due to thunderstorms

I'll follow that same plan later this month, though not as extreme. I have to speak at a conference in Sacramento on Thursday afternoon, so I'm flying there on Wednesday morning. I've checked that there are other flight options later that day in case my flight gets cancelled or delayed.

Now if I were just attending the conference, I wouldn't care, but when I speak I don't want to leave a room of people sitting there. I used to organize conferences and I know how tough it can be when the speaker doesn't show up.[/quote]

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