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I hear you. Previous office I went to I had to wait more than 30 minutes past my appointment time before being seen by the nurse (before being seen by the docto
by muninn_ 10y ago
I hear you. Previous office I went to I had to wait more than 30 minutes past my appointment time before being seen by the nurse (before being seen by the doctor) which didn't include "arrive 10 minutes before your appointment". Obviously this is annoying. The third time I showed up to the same office I was 10 minutes late to my appointment, and they told me I would have to reschedule or wait about 45 minutes to an hour.
I told them to cancel the appointment then. They asked if I wanted to reschedule "Nope. I'm going to find another office".
I did find another office, and the doctor was more professional, thorough, and I had next to no wait time.
- foldr 10y agoWhat you appear to want is contradictory. Tolerance for people arriving late is incompatible with having appointments start on time, as everything gets backed up.
- uiri 10y agoIf you routinely have to wait 30+ minutes when you arrive to your appointment on time, and then have to wait even longer if you show up a little late then the office is already backed up on a regular basis.
- delecti 10y agoThe logic seems to be "if it's not going to start on time anyway then my being late shouldn't affect anything". That seems reasonable to me, or at the very least, if a doctor's office is chronically quite behind anyway, then your being late is only contributing to the problem, not causing it.
- yourapostasy 10y agoLots of medical professionals use an app/site to help manage patient appointments. I want one of those suppliers to come out with a smartphone app for the patients to run to give the medical office real-time projected arrival time on the day of the appointment. Then the office can offer expedited check-in for patients that use the app, because they know the patient will arrive on time and don't have to pad the check-in time estimates. Bonus for watching traffic patterns and looking for accidents/road closures, then giving the patient a heads up to start making their way to the office earlier than anticipated; bonus for storing trending data on individual patients to adjust reminders (those more consistently tardy get earlier and more frequent reminders).
- muninn_ 10y agoSo the thing is that it's not like I wait 30 minutes then see the nurse and then immediately see the doctor. It's wait 30 minutes, wait 5 minutes for the nurse, wait 20 minutes for the doctor and then she is like rushing through her appointment with me. I spend over an hour for 5-10 minutes worth of doctor time.
- ams6110 10y agoAlways try to schedule appointments early in the day if you care about timeliness. Less chances for schedules to slip.