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re: Gotta Love Doctors Offices
Posted on 9/9/22 at 8:53 am to TDFreak
Posted on 9/9/22 at 8:53 am to TDFreak
And it’s the patients that get on my last nerve.
Just this week, there’s a lady on speaker holding a complete full voice conversation with someone, there’s another patient with an earpiece having a full conversation but you don’t get to hear the other side of that one, there are at least two children in there one watching Disney+ and other playing some annoying game with the sound on full volume. Then there’s the lady doubled over in pain calling her other doctor begging for pain pills telling her doctor she’s bleeding out (side note I see no blood and apparently her doctor wasn’t too concerned about it either), then there’s the loud tv blasting Golden Girls or something like that. Oh, let’s not forget the actual sick people who are coughing and sneezing everywhere. I felt like I was at Wendy’s.
Just this week, there’s a lady on speaker holding a complete full voice conversation with someone, there’s another patient with an earpiece having a full conversation but you don’t get to hear the other side of that one, there are at least two children in there one watching Disney+ and other playing some annoying game with the sound on full volume. Then there’s the lady doubled over in pain calling her other doctor begging for pain pills telling her doctor she’s bleeding out (side note I see no blood and apparently her doctor wasn’t too concerned about it either), then there’s the loud tv blasting Golden Girls or something like that. Oh, let’s not forget the actual sick people who are coughing and sneezing everywhere. I felt like I was at Wendy’s.
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Posted on 9/9/22 at 8:53 am to AUriptide
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Just went last week, appointment was at 1 and didn't see doctor until 2:45.
This is bananas. If it was something pressing and not a checkup, I'd have given them until 1:30. After that, I'm better off with someone with better judgement.
Posted on 9/9/22 at 8:53 am to TDFreak
You are merely a customer.
Posted on 9/9/22 at 8:54 am to Flyingtiger82
I eat right, get plenty of sleep, and exercise. I don't go to the doctor. Yall should try it
Posted on 9/9/22 at 8:54 am to Landmass
quote:Even your long time doc will farm you out to some PA or NP without asking if that is ok, and while there are good ones, most I have dealt with never look up from their ipads or whatever they are typing in.
Doctor's offices have no respect or common decency
Posted on 9/9/22 at 8:55 am to kywildcatfanone
A big reason they get backed up is because dumbass patients can't give a concise history or complaint and can't answer a simple question with a concise answer. Either that or the patient wants to bullshite about irrelevant information like how their day is going or what Karen said to them at the office (patients call this "bedside manner" and grade their physicians on it but it is completely irrelevant to patient care).
If patients could communicate more clearly and concisely, there wouldn't be as much back-up.
Not saying OB/GYN's are more susceptible to this because of their patient population, but I really am.
Posted on 9/9/22 at 8:55 am to TDFreak
I’ve mailed a doctor an invoice for my time once….never heard back and I fired him 
Posted on 9/9/22 at 8:57 am to ibldprplgld
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Maybe try scheduling appointments for earlier in the day so they’re less likely to be backed up?
Bruh, he posted this thread at 8:30 in the morning, and has clearly already been there a while.
My main problem with some doctors is how fricking fast they try to get out of the room. I had one when I was having my ENT surgery bullshite several years back, that every time he'd come in it was like a race to see how fast he could finish up with me and peace the frick out of the room. It was like I was a hurdle to him in a long race, and before I could even think about any questions to ask him he was gone and onto the next one. Used to piss me off so much. If you're gonna get paid that amount of money, the least you could do is give proper time to your patients IMO.
Posted on 9/9/22 at 8:58 am to yellowfin
quote:Did you send collections after them?
I’ve mailed a doctor an invoice for my time once….never heard back and I fired him
Posted on 9/9/22 at 9:00 am to ibldprplgld
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Maybe try scheduling appointments for earlier in the day so they’re less likely to be backed up?
That's how I plan it. I get the first available appointment I can get and being retired, I'm very flexible as to what day works for me------as in all of them.
Besides, my primary care Dr. is in Metairie and by the time I'm done there, the rush hour traffic heading into N.O. is over. Win/Win
Posted on 9/9/22 at 9:02 am to AUriptide
quote:find a new provider. This isn’t normal nor acceptable. Doc better slick slide a scrip of some Perc tens to make it right.
I just started taking a vacation day when it's time for my 6 month check up. Just went last week, appointment was at 1 and didn't see doctor until 2:45.
Posted on 9/9/22 at 9:03 am to Korkstand
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So the ones who show up have to pay for it with their time wasted?
Yep, exactly the same way you pay in the form of high taxes for all the people who decide not to work and live off the system.
Posted on 9/9/22 at 9:04 am to TDFreak
They also get backed up when patients show up 15min late and it pushes back everyone else. They need to charge $50 and cancel appointments for late arrivals
Posted on 9/9/22 at 9:06 am to The_Velour_Fog
quote:horseshite.
A big reason they get backed up is because dumbass patients can't give a concise history or complaint and can't answer a simple question with a concise answer. Either that or the patient wants to bullshite about irrelevant information like how their day is going or what Karen said to them at the office (patients call this "bedside manner" and grade their physicians on it but it is completely irrelevant to patient care).
The little cheap doors are not sound proof, we can hear the absolute bullshite going on outside the room
If you hire a contractor or engineer would you accept them being an hour late, rushing through the top 1-2 concerns, ignoring anything else and then have them step out because they are so damn busy and you spend the next 10 minutes listening to them talking about the kids soccer game with their secretary?
Of course not, but we are asked to put up with that shite from our Drs.
I am not talking about surgeons or specialists, I am talking GPs that dont even round and have a nurse taking care of every call in.
Posted on 9/9/22 at 9:09 am to KLSU
quote:So what you're saying is doctors just want that cash and they don't care who they frick over to get it?
Yep, exactly the same way you pay in the form of high taxes for all the people who decide not to work and live off the system.
Posted on 9/9/22 at 9:09 am to TDFreak
Scheduling is indeed very difficult to do efficiently. It is an absolute necessity of multiple bookings for a time slot if one expects to be able to see patients in a timely fashion, it just is and there is no way around that- if a provider doesn't book multiple on slots, they will run into unacceptable time to appointment figures.
An office needs a highly functioning EHR with people who know how to use it (these are absolutely few and far between) and an algorithm for putting appointments in based on complexity and time expectation (requires human expertise).
If you have good up front people who understand this and good back people who know when to bring an add on in, then outside of emergencies or hospital pulls, it can and generally will function very well, as long as the office prioritizes this. I would wager that most providers don't want to be there any longer than they have to as time is money to them just as it is to every patient. Being inefficient is not good for any parties involved, but the truth is that any provider is at the mercy of multiple obstacles to achieve patient acceptable throughput whilst still giving every patient the amount of time they need.
An office needs a highly functioning EHR with people who know how to use it (these are absolutely few and far between) and an algorithm for putting appointments in based on complexity and time expectation (requires human expertise).
If you have good up front people who understand this and good back people who know when to bring an add on in, then outside of emergencies or hospital pulls, it can and generally will function very well, as long as the office prioritizes this. I would wager that most providers don't want to be there any longer than they have to as time is money to them just as it is to every patient. Being inefficient is not good for any parties involved, but the truth is that any provider is at the mercy of multiple obstacles to achieve patient acceptable throughput whilst still giving every patient the amount of time they need.
Posted on 9/9/22 at 9:09 am to SuperSaint
quote:No possible way I wait for a Dr for damn near two hours. If I had a real illness, theat may be different, but for a regular primary care check up and appointment? Hell no.
I just started taking a vacation day when it's time for my 6 month check up. Just went last week, appointment was at 1 and didn't see doctor until 2:45.
find a new provider. This isn’t normal nor acceptable. Doc better slick slide a scrip of some Perc tens to make it right.
Posted on 9/9/22 at 9:11 am to TDFreak
I've heard from some opthalmologist/optometry baws, they double book medicaid people. Because, they skip appointments so frequently.
Posted on 9/9/22 at 9:13 am to Flyingtiger82
quote:Sound like you are in redneck Somalia.
And it’s the patients that get on my last nerve.
Just this week, there’s a lady on speaker holding a complete full voice conversation with someone, there’s another patient with an earpiece having a full conversation but you don’t get to hear the other side of that one, there are at least two children in there one watching Disney+ and other playing some annoying game with the sound on full volume. Then there’s the lady doubled over in pain calling her other doctor begging for pain pills telling her doctor she’s bleeding out (side note I see no blood and apparently her doctor wasn’t too concerned about it either), then there’s the loud tv blasting Golden Girls or something like that. Oh, let’s not forget the actual sick people who are coughing and sneezing everywhere. I felt like I was at Wendy’s.
Posted on 9/9/22 at 9:15 am to MikeBRLA
quote:How many open invoices are you showing?
I charge my doctor a $100 no show fee if isn't in the exam room on time
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