How does that make sense lol. If everyone is 5 minutes late, then the whole schedule shifts back 5 minutes. The only way it builds into an hour long wait is if they’re being overbooked on an over optimistic schedule. Hoping they’ll only take X minutes but they actually take X+5, for example.
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starman2112@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Speaking from experience, we’re an hour behind because 20 people were 5 minutes late
Fatal@piefed.social 1 month ago
BarbecueCowboy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
Hey look, you figured out where the scam is, congratulations.
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
TIL Doctors cannot write nor manage a basic queueing process.
W98BSoD@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 1 month ago
My mother does two things whenever I take her to a doctor’s appointment:
- Complain to everyone if she has to wait even a few minutes for her appointment to start
- Endlessly ask the doctor pointless questions, repeat herself over and over again with the preface “and as I said”, and generally babble so her own appointment goes long past its scheduled length
davetortoise@reddthat.com 1 month ago
A huge number of Gen X and boomers have a strange idea that you’re supposed to distrust and challenge doctors constantly. Like they’re going to try to cheat you or something.
ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 1 month ago
It’s not that strange an idea given the extent to which the pharmaceutical industry essentially bribes doctors to prescribe their drugs, or the frequency with which health care organizations defraud Medicare and insurance companies, fraud which often takes the form of unnecessary medical procedures. Blindly trusting any professional is the strange idea (I agree that constant distrust is probably unhelpful).
boonhet@sopuli.xyz 1 month ago
Boy, isn’t that a great system?
This is all literally all not a thing here. Hospitals aren’t usually private businesses at all and taking bribes is in fact illegal.
Yet older generations still distrust doctors here too
davetortoise@reddthat.com 1 month ago
Ah yeah. I’m from the UK and we don’t really experience that. Although the attitude still exists in the older generation
NotEasyBeingGreen@slrpnk.net 1 month ago
Possibly because in the past there was a notion that doctors would lie to their patients “for their own good”, and that the doctor’s decision about your care was something you had to just accept.
The notion that patients could advocate for their own care arose during the boomers’ lifetime.
Mulligrubs@lemmy.world 1 month ago
That’s because a lot of doctors are untrustworthy (being people), and as the years roll by many have watched our loved ones suffer and die in horrifying pain
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Or dealing with someone’s life threatening emergency and pretending it’s people being late.
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
It is really funny to me that, in general, medical professionals in the US still think people do or should broadly respect them.
… Why?
Nobody cares that you’re just following orders, that’s not a very good excuse.
Nobody cares that you have a boatload of debt you need to pay off… most people do these days.
None of that gives ya’ll societal permission to engage in possibly the most elaborate gaslighting fraud system that humanity has ever produced.
Ya’ll are supposed to have ethics, ‘first, do no harm’, yet you violate this routinely as a matter of course.
With few exceptions, you’re all hypocritical liars with God complexes.
Zink@programming.dev 1 month ago
Is this an elaborate “yet you participate in society!” retort?
I am a regular consumer of our ridiculous inhuman healthcare system in the US. The people who are hands-on with patients are generally NOT the problem.
TrickDacy@lemmy.world 1 month ago
And definitely not from the over scheduling. Yep definitely not that.
chunes@lemmy.world 1 month ago
You don’t overschedule, people start complaining that too many doctors aren’t taking new patients. You try to increase the amount of doctors and people complain about immigration. Can’t win
Spitefire@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Powerful lobbies are surpressing the number of doctors practicing in the US. If a foreign doctor wants to emigrate and practice here they cannot until they pass TOEFL (reasonable) AND finish US-based residencies, of which there are few. I know a Russian dermatologist who has been a receptionist for years because she cannot get ECFMG certification. Some states are wising up and waiving the residencies, but way more need to do it.
TrickDacy@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I’m not complaining about immigration. Only idiots and assholes complain about that.
Doctors might schedule less patients per day and overall increase the number of patients seen overall. It’s not like over scheduling doesn’t have other effects besides being infuriating. It means they rush through the visit, ask few follow-up questions and decrease the chance I’ll have a solution in that one visit. I may have to come back again after the useless piece of non-applicable advice they gave me doesn’t work.
I guess a lot of lemmings work in doctors offices or something. It’s not an unfair ask at all to not routinely wait many minutes past your appointment time. It’s very fair. Yet itt several users push back against this idea as though the waiting isn’t anyone’s fault. Yes, it is. And we deserve better.
chunes@lemmy.world 1 month ago
As a professional patient, trust me, I know. Short, pointless appointments are the bane of my existence. But I’m rural, and someone not taking patients can mean I have to drive a couple hours to the nearest big city. It’s a giant asspain all around
chiliedogg@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I mean - it already takes months to get an appointment. If they schedule even fewer patients I don’t see that improving either.
TrickDacy@lemmy.world 1 month ago
If they schedule fewer patients then maybe they’d feel like they have time to talk to me and we’d actually solve my issue so I don’t come back two weeks later, further gumming up the system. “Even fewer”? A recent doctor experience I had was arriving early for a 9:45 appointment to an absolutely jam packed waiting room where I had to wait literally almost two hours to be seen. By your logic, they weren’t seeing many patients and it’s a bad solution to see fewer. I cannot pinpoint all the problems behind the scenes but it’s 100% clear multiple people are not operating honestly. If you make an appointment time, you should plan to not have patients wait hours past that. You the doctor office did something wrong and it was avoidable. They probably over scheduled and then also the doctor came in late. Again I don’t know the details but I do know they fucked up and that’s not uncommon and it’s also not something to dismiss as patients expecting too much.
chiliedogg@lemmy.world 1 month ago
There’s a huge problem with staffing and insurance bullshit in the medical field. 20 years ago, if I got sick I could see my GP usually the same day. Now it takes months to get an appointment, so people go to urgent care or the ER.
A doctor friend explained to me years ago a huge part is insurance companies. He explained that if he prescribed an MRI, he personally had to speak to an adjuster on the phone that had a literal timer requiring them to be on the phone for 20 minutes. They want to inconvenience the doctors into not prescribing procedures or medicines that cost more money.