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• Grostleton@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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  The doctor’s office when they’re an hour behind because people keep coming in late.

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  • then_three_more@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I’ve had appointments at opening time and they’re still half an hour late. Doctor strolling in 15 minutes after the appointment time.

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    • JusticeForPorygon@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      That’ll be $47,000

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    • Angrydeuce@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Oh, you see an actual doctor? I haven’t seen an actual doctor in the last like 3 years, always just a physicians assistant or other nurse.

      Still get charged the dr copay though, funny how that works.

      I wouldnt be surprised if the doctor is an AI construct and theyre just running my symptoms through whatever insurance company provided AI bullshit at this point.

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  • TrickDacy@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I love how multiple people itt are defending doctors making us wait up to an hour after our appointment time as if it’s not 90% their fault

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    • explodicle@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      TBF it’s usually not the doctor’s fault, it’s systemic.

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  • Cossty@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    My mum is a nurse. From what she tells me, almost all wait times are caused by the doctors who book too many patients and appoint each patient too little of time.

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• starman2112@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Speaking from experience, we’re an hour behind because 20 people were 5 minutes late

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  • TrickDacy@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    And definitely not from the over scheduling. Yep definitely not that.

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    • chunes@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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

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    • chiliedogg@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I mean - it already takes months to get an appointment. If they schedule even fewer patients I don’t see that improving either.

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  • Fatal@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    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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    • BarbecueCowboy@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Hey look, you figured out where the scam is, congratulations.

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  • ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    My mother does two things whenever I take her to a doctor’s appointment:

    1. Complain to everyone if she has to wait even a few minutes for her appointment to start
    2. 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

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    • davetortoise@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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  • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Or dealing with someone’s life threatening emergency and pretending it’s people being late.

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    • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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• iatenine@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I had a scheduler get mad at me for being 5 mins early instead of 15. I still waited another 10 in the lobby

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• Gonzako@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I’d rather wait for the doctor that takes its time to diagnose everyone than the one that is always on time

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  • Miaou@jlai.lu ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Bold of you to assume they’re not just taking in way too many customers patients

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    • NottaLottaOcelot@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      What are they supposed to do? Turn away sick people?

      “Sorry you think you have an infection. Just deal with it for a few more weeks until I have time”

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  • ivanafterall@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Maybe the one that’s always on time is just really good at diagnosing.

    “Cancer. Get out. Erectile dysfunction. Get out. Missing a leg. Get out.”

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    • peteypete420@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Dam I thought it was just an inner ear infection giving me balance issues.

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    • Gonzako@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      One of the skills doctors need is to be able to not only look that the most apparent option because should they diagnose wrong the patient is in a even worse position. Medicine is not a okams razor field, getting the diagnosis right precedes getting it fast.

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  • GladiusB@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I would rather they manage their appointments like they value everyone’s time. Not everyone has an hour to wait PAST when they say they are available.

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• Mulligrubs@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  A few “five minutes late” appointments go by, and before you know it they’re an hour behind! It’s crazy

  Let’s blame them.

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  • blujan@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Maybe, and I don’t doubt that urgent appointments happen and they try to squeeze them in and I understand that, one day it might be me.

    But talking specifically about my kid’s pediatrician and my wife’s obstetrician, we several times were scheduled for a specific time, and we came to learn we were scheduled in 10 to 15 minutes windows, and most times the appointment would last for at least 20 to 30 minutes.

    So they do have some blame, and they charge too much not to have some semblance of time keeping.

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• sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Oh, your bureacracy is complicated?

  Cool, I don’t care.

  Tell how much this is gonna cost before I obtain the service.

  Can’t even come close to doing that?

  Fraud, as far I’m concerned.

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  • ITGuyLevi@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    When they are late, I tell the front desk to re-schedule and leave. I’ve had the dentist complain once or twice over the years but when two entities decide on a time for a meeting, that’s the time it needs to happen. Unlike the office, I’m having to cancel stuff I would normally be doing to be there, they are not.

    Eventually I’ll be old and grumpy enough to start sending them bills for late cancellation (probably joking).

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    • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Exactly.

      The… the norms here are bullshit, both from the PoV of ‘I am a consumer’, and also from the basic professional etiquette of ‘this is a business meeting’.

      Fuck, like… I got a statement from my insurance the other day, saying they didn’t cover 1 of the two sets of glasses I got.

      Called em.

      Do I owe you money?

      No, your optometry provider might bill you later though.

      Ah ok, cool, thanks!

      … and its been 6 months and the optometrists have yet to send me a bill.

      Not my problem!

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    • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Wasn’t this a Seinfeld episode?

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• gigachad@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  At least it is free to go to the doctor

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  • GreenKnight23@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    cries in American

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    • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Wait, you know what else we’ve got that they ain’t? Student debt! Let’s depress ourselves at them some more!

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  • TrickDacy@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Civilized country defaultism strikes again

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  • Tiger666@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Parking can be expensive sometimes depending on where the clinic is.

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    • gigachad@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Public transport makes parking unnecessary

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  • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    😢🔫

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• cattywampas@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  They’re an hour behind schedule because everyone ahead of you was 5 minutes late.

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• allidoislietomyself@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  A few years ago I was heading to the major city children hospital near us for a post op follow up for my kid. GPS said it would take 1.5hrs to get there so I left 2hrs early to make sure we get parking and we’re able to get to the appointment early. Well traffic ended up being so bad it took 4hrs to get to the hospital. I called ahead of time and asked if it was ok that we still go to the appointment because we were running way later than expected. The doc office said it was fine and to just get there as soon as we could. So we got to to hospital and up to the office and they saw us right away. Well the doc gets in the room and she starts yelling at me about being late and how disrespectful it is and how us being late impacts everyone’s day. I apologized a few times as she continued to yell. Finally I said calmly “ok lady we get it. I apologized and I called ahead and your office folks said it was fine.”. Well she lost it on me after that. She said “DO NOT SCREAM AT ME OR THREATEN ME!”, then she told the nurse to call security to escort me out. I very calmly said “I did not yell. I did not threaten anyone. I simply said we understood and I don’t need to be lectured on it. It’s sounds like we all have had a stressful morning so let’s just continue with the appointment and call it a day.” And that is exactly what we did. Any followup we have had since then has been very pleasant. Just caught her on a bad day I guess.

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  • Janx@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Having a bad day is one thing. Taking it out on your patient by lying, yelling, threatening, and trying to delay their care is quite different. You must be a very forgiving person because I would have plastered details of that interaction on Google, social media, local news, their boss (if they have one), etc. Unless they’re literally the only person with that expertise in the world, no one should have to be treated like that…

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    • allidoislietomyself@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      That did cross my mind. However she’s a phenomenal surgeon and that is all I needed her to be. Her skills dramatically changed the quality of my kid’s life for the better so it was well worth it. Also every interaction with her since then over the years has been perfect. Maybe she found out her husband was cheating on her that morning? Maybe her grandmother passed away and she just got the news before the appointment? Whatever it was, what I said to her was just the straw that broke the camel’s back.

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  • Salamanderwizard@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Better than me. I would’ve had an attitude every time I had to go back.

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    • allidoislietomyself@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Thankfully we only have to see her once every 6 months or so. Plus she’s been absolutely great since the incident. I think she was probably a little embarrassed afterwards.

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• DupaCycki@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Once, I was literally 2 minutes late. The doctor was busy talking to a nurse and only asked for me in 5 minutes, at which point he asked me why I’m almost 10 minutes late.

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• Devadander@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Cause and effect. Don’t be late

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• TrickDacy@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  If you’re 5 minutes late, you get seen 40 minutes after your appointment time. If you’re five minutes early, you are seen 10 minutes or more past your appointment time. Yep totally makes sense. And totally makes sense that people itt are making this fact the patients’ faults.

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• Psionicsickness@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I would understand this anywhere but here in America. Here, I’m paying you, motherfucker.

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• DarkFuture@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Mine has a smile on their face as long as they can overcharge me for not helping me.

  Which is every single time.

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• Siegfried@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I postponed a visit for months because of covid and Quarantäne. At thr moment, it seemed like a really important visit.

  Almost lost the turn, commuted through the whole city… the doctor arrived 2,5 hours late. She was not even sorry.

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• DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Last visit, the woman at the desk told me my doctor was running an hour behind. I knew that meant I’d be waiting closer to two hours. I sighed, sat down, thought for a moment, and went back to the desk to reschedule the appointment. I did the doctor and me a favor. She got a free spot in her schedule to catch up, and I didn’t need to sit around for two hours.

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