re: how long do you wait in doctors office

Worked for an Ortho Trauma Unit for about 6yrs... on call and we had a clinic m-w-f b/c we tried to schedule most surgeries on t-tr. our avg waiting time was at least 2hrs for the most part. our wait time depending on the amount of work did we on our patients. ex: someone whose wrist we had to reduce and cast took a total of about 1.5-2hrs. Consisted of bringing you back, take vitals, do a review of your info/exam etc etc... Then I move you into our cast room... you get an injection in the wrist, get reduced, get casted.... takes about 2hrs. I'm the first to admit that its a long time to wait and its bad for patients, but what do you do when no one else will see these people. We saw everyone, and the hospital ran in the negative for 2yrs in a row. People don't pay bills, want health care for free and expect it and don't give a shite about their credit rating. Point is you get in a shite storm if you tell someone no and this is the kind of crap you deal with.