My fav was a doc office that gave arrival times, not appointment times. When pressed, the appointment time was 30 minutes after the arrival time.
I bring this up every time (and I recognize it’s a joke in this context) but I need to emphasize it’s administrations fault, not the doctor, usually. They force 15 minute appointments and a full schedule, which is simply not enough if anything complex takes more time. And that delay grows and grows throughout the day. You will get the worst delay right before lunch or right before the office closes, because you get to feel the extent of every delay combined
Yes very true. But at the same time you have two scenarios. 1, the doctors hired the administrators. 2, the doctors sold their clinic to a company that buys up clinics and sets up administrators that do this. Now becuase many doctor owned clinics have sold out for a big payday, new doctors have much less choice in where they work. They usually can’t afford to open a private practice, so they have to start out working at clinics owned by corporations. The lesson? Look for a private practice doctor any time you can. (In the US at least)
Okay so let’s drag these administrators into the street and give em a piece of our minds. Just another capitalist pig
Note that the reduced delay after lunch happens if (as is usual) the doctor skips lunch. Medicine seems like a miserable profession for most specialties.
I was just bitching about this last month.
If you don’t get in the little room half-an-hour after you get there, then it takes even longer.
Doctor’s offices are the DMV of today.
