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re: Gotta Love Doctors Offices
Posted on 9/9/22 at 1:06 pm to TDFreak
Posted on 9/9/22 at 1:06 pm to TDFreak
Patients get mad if they have to wait
Patients get mad if they can't get an appointment because the doctor isn't overbooked
Patients get mad if you don't spend an hour addressing the 20 additional complaints they decided to bring up in addition to what the appointment was scheduled for
Patients get mad if they can't get an appointment because the doctor isn't overbooked
Patients get mad if you don't spend an hour addressing the 20 additional complaints they decided to bring up in addition to what the appointment was scheduled for
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Posted on 9/9/22 at 1:50 pm to TDFreak
Pro tip? For primary care appointments schedule for as early in the day as possible.
Posted on 9/9/22 at 2:21 pm to TDFreak
If it's just a checkup and I've waited longer than 30 minutes, I leave. Done it twice at my doctor's and on my rescheduled appointment I haven't had to wait two minutes.
Posted on 9/9/22 at 2:52 pm to TDFreak
That’s not my experience. Maybe it’s where you live.
Posted on 9/9/22 at 4:44 pm to TDFreak
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Gotta Love Doctors Offices
No. No, I do not.
Posted on 9/9/22 at 4:48 pm to TDFreak
This is why I show up late to every doctors appointment. Never have to wait.
Posted on 9/9/22 at 4:48 pm to TDFreak
I actually feel bad for (most) docs. Today unless they’re business savvy, many don’t make the money you think they do. They overbook because many of them are looking for every billable scrap they can to pay off their debt
Not saying it’s not a bitch to wait
Not saying it’s not a bitch to wait
Posted on 9/9/22 at 5:01 pm to TDFreak
Telemedicine is freaking awesome. I had an appointment yesterday from my office.
Posted on 9/9/22 at 5:08 pm to TDFreak
insurance companies have cut down on payout as well, so they are having to pick up more
Posted on 9/9/22 at 5:28 pm to TDFreak
Concierge medicine, turns the tables on the doctor and he is catering to you instead of the other way around.
Posted on 9/9/22 at 5:53 pm to TDFreak
About a third of the patients show up late. Some of them don’t show up at all.
So you get a doctor that’s running a half hour late by 11am and an hour late by 2pm.
So you get a doctor that’s running a half hour late by 11am and an hour late by 2pm.
Posted on 9/9/22 at 6:56 pm to TDFreak
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They overbook appointments and pile you in their waiting rooms. Then they blow past your appointment time as if you have zero value. They oughta be paying me for taking off of work just to sit here for over an hour.
Why don’t these folks schedule more reasonably? If they have “surgery” then don’t book appointments. Better yet, they should give a discount on the bill. Sheesh.
/r
Solutions are concierge medicine or don't go to the doctor. Throw down some cash or STFU.
Posted on 9/9/22 at 7:44 pm to TDFreak
Try being a veteran and allowing them to take care of your health at VA.
Posted on 9/9/22 at 7:50 pm to TDFreak
I am not buying this poor doctor routine.
PCP average is $250k
Specialist $350k
Surgeons $500k
Hell residents complain about making more than the average household income while they are still learning. That's household, not individual.
PCP average is $250k
Specialist $350k
Surgeons $500k
Hell residents complain about making more than the average household income while they are still learning. That's household, not individual.
Posted on 9/9/22 at 7:56 pm to TDFreak
Depends on where you live
When my wife and I moved to Minneapolis, we actually had our visits passed over because we weren’t signed in 30 minutes prior to our appointments.
We never had a single appointment where we weren’t called back early.
Crazy.
When my wife and I moved to Minneapolis, we actually had our visits passed over because we weren’t signed in 30 minutes prior to our appointments.
We never had a single appointment where we weren’t called back early.
Crazy.
Posted on 9/9/22 at 9:37 pm to TDFreak
Exactly why I pay for MDVIP. NFW do I want to ever go back to a regular waiting room full of the unwashed.
Posted on 9/9/22 at 11:59 pm to TDFreak
First thing in the morning or first Appt after lunch, especially if they close for lunch. Pediatricians are the worst, but you can’t blame the sick kids they’re seeing. You don’t plan to be sick, so it’s tough to scheduled appts for it
Posted on 9/10/22 at 6:56 am to TDFreak
The fee for service payment structure is the problem with healthcare in this country. It is the root cause at every single issue we have. Every. Single. One.
Posted on 9/10/22 at 9:40 am to TDFreak
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Gotta Love Doctors Offices
Why do they schedule appointments at 8am when the doctor doesn't get there until 9? My kids' pediatrician did that, which explained why I always had to wait well over an hour every time I went at 8, even when I was the first one called in the waiting room.
But they had a sign saying if you were 15 minutes late, they cancelled the appointment and still charged you for the visit.
Posted on 9/10/22 at 12:46 pm to TDFreak
No necessarily defending MD’s being unable to manage their business, but I will say many times it’s out of their control.
In the hospital, often a surgeon has to schedule an urgent case, but the surgery schedule is full. We sometimes find a gap and say, for example, we have an opening at 2:00. Then they say, “damn, that’s right in the middle of my office schedule.”
To which we say, “how urgent is this case?” Then they say ,”fine. I’ll take it.”
If it’s truly emergent, they get a cut.
In the hospital, often a surgeon has to schedule an urgent case, but the surgery schedule is full. We sometimes find a gap and say, for example, we have an opening at 2:00. Then they say, “damn, that’s right in the middle of my office schedule.”
To which we say, “how urgent is this case?” Then they say ,”fine. I’ll take it.”
If it’s truly emergent, they get a cut.
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