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How often are you waiting to two weeks to see your primary care doctor? I’ve never had an issue getting an appointment the same week, if not the next day. I agr

by abduhl 3y ago

How often are you waiting to two weeks to see your primary care doctor? I’ve never had an issue getting an appointment the same week, if not the next day. I agree that wait times for specialists can be excessive.

moomoo11 3y ago
Do you live in a city? I’m in SF area and most single practice type clincs don’t seem to be taking new patients. My options are to go to a private equity booster commercial building that houses tens of doctors, which is honestly feels like I’m going to a Walmart. It’s impersonal. They don’t give a shit about me. The staff is rude. Appointments are still hard to get. Why deal with that? If this is the situation I’d rather deal with an automated but personalized system. Actually I’m working on such a system. I hope it works out. I’ve also dealt with a misdiagnosis as a kid that resulted in loss of full range motion. I can walk now but I’ve got hip and mild spine alignment issues. I’m salty about it. I’m not the only one to suffer something like that. It’s not fair either. Sorry. Many issues. I’m not a fan of doctors or the medical field as it is today. They’re just men and they make mistakes. They need to be replaced with systems that are far more personal, accurate, and actually preventative. Something you can keep as your lifelong medical assistant.
phil21 3y ago
It's extremely geographic and even health system dependent. A non-urgent primary care visit is at minimum 60 days out for me, usually well beyond 90. Urgent stuff of course gets seen much quicker, but even moderately urgent things can be a few days to a week wait. This is pretty common for most of my peers in the area. My last place of residence I could be seen same or next day most of the time, but I also hear it's slowly getting worse there as well. It's going to get really ugly in the rural areas, especially for those on Medicare, but everyone is going to be noticing the shortages pretty soon unless you can afford concierge level care or happen to live in a few medical hotspot regions.
DontchaKnowit 3y ago
My primary care in a c tier american city usually takes over 1 month to schedule an apt. Its been as bad as 2.5 months. What even is the point? The only thing they do for me is gatekeep medications that Ive been on since I was a child. Its a joke.

by abduhl 3y ago

moomoo11 3y ago

Do you live in a city? I’m in SF area and most single practice type clincs don’t seem to be taking new patients. My options are to go to a private equity booster commercial building that houses tens of doctors, which is honestly feels like I’m going to a Walmart. It’s impersonal. They don’t give a shit about me. The staff is rude. Appointments are still hard to get. Why deal with that? If this is the situation I’d rather deal with an automated but personalized system. Actually I’m working on such a system. I hope it works out. I’ve also dealt with a misdiagnosis as a kid that resulted in loss of full range motion. I can walk now but I’ve got hip and mild spine alignment issues. I’m salty about it. I’m not the only one to suffer something like that. It’s not fair either. Sorry. Many issues. I’m not a fan of doctors or the medical field as it is today. They’re just men and they make mistakes. They need to be replaced with systems that are far more personal, accurate, and actually preventative. Something you can keep as your lifelong medical assistant.

phil21 3y ago

It's extremely geographic and even health system dependent. A non-urgent primary care visit is at minimum 60 days out for me, usually well beyond 90. Urgent stuff of course gets seen much quicker, but even moderately urgent things can be a few days to a week wait. This is pretty common for most of my peers in the area. My last place of residence I could be seen same or next day most of the time, but I also hear it's slowly getting worse there as well. It's going to get really ugly in the rural areas, especially for those on Medicare, but everyone is going to be noticing the shortages pretty soon unless you can afford concierge level care or happen to live in a few medical hotspot regions.

DontchaKnowit 3y ago

My primary care in a c tier american city usually takes over 1 month to schedule an apt. Its been as bad as 2.5 months. What even is the point? The only thing they do for me is gatekeep medications that Ive been on since I was a child. Its a joke.