re: General PSA to patients from healthcare providers: What we want you to know

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Don't give us appointments at 11:00am and then have us sit in the examination room for 2.5 hours before we actually see the doctor.

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boom

This doesn't sound like you're a healthcare elitist douche at all.

Please start talking to your clients like this and see how far that gets you in your professional career.

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I'm with you, however they will never listen. In general they think we do nothing and are gazillionaires. I've been in practice for 12 years and it bothered me the way they acted and treated my office staff the first few years then I just focused on why I got into the profession and focused on helping people get well and stay well. That's the best advise.

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then you should suck my dick for drilling an oil well so you can drive to the mall

GTFO with this whiney shite

As a fellow healthcare worker, I feel your pain. To watch our ED get abused by people that would rather buy 26" rims than go to the fricking Dr then want to use our ED as a primary care for ear aches and nasal infections on the taxpayer dime makes me want to beat the shite out of someone.

Medicaid only pays us $.25 on the dollar for treating these tit suckers.

It doesn't help when their baby daddy comes to see them in the hospital, cuts through a flower bed clearly off of the walking path and trips over a sprinkler head then wants to sue the hospital for a gazillion dollars that we have to pay a lawyer $500/hr to defend.

Like I said, makes me want to beat the shite out of someone.

Y'all must have seriously behind providers.

I have seen 83 clinic patients so far this week. The longest any patient has had to wait after their appointment time to get in an exam room was 22 min and that was because they showed up 5 min after their appointment time and took 17 min to verify their mcaid that they failed to bring their card in for.

The longest any patient has waited to be seen by me past their appointment time this week was 33 min and that was because the patient before them was actively suicidal and had to be directly admitted to the hospital in the middle of clinic.

I could lay a lot worse bullshite on you that I deal with in my job. But alas, nobody gives a shite. Just count your money Doc and try to see me, in the rare event I visit you, in less than an hour. Thanks

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I could lay a lot worse bullshite on you that I deal with in my job. But alas, nobody gives a shite. Just count your money Doc and try to see me, in the rare event I visit you, in less than an hour. Thanks

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This is all that needs to be said in reply to the OP.

It's almost as if you specialize in a customer base who aren't feeling their best.

I understand your complaints but you probably get paid a nice salary. You voluntarily chose a profession that serves the public. I'm sure you've had plenty of good experiences too.