I read an article that said doctor's #1 pet peeve with patients was waiting for them to arrive. You've seen more people waiting past their appointment time than you've seen doctors waiting on late patients, amirite?

+232 I read an article that said doctor's #1 pet peeve with patients was waiting for them to arrive. You've seen more people waiting past their appointment time than you've seen doctors waiting on late patients, amirite?

by Anonymous 11 years ago

I demand to see the article before believing what you said.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Have fun: http://www.aarp.org/health/doctors-hospitals/info-12-2011/doctor-patient-complaints.html

by Anonymous 11 years ago

... Dammit, you're not actually supposed to have a source.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Glad to be a surprise. Now

and <3 me.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

It works both ways. For as many patients sitting in the waiting room for their late doctor, there is another patient who is running late and screwing up the whole schedule.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Every doctor I've been to has the policy that over 15min late you have to reschedule. Also, the rare times I have been called back on time, I had to continue waiting at least 15min before seeing the doctor.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

My dad's probably way too lenient then. He's never forced one of his patients to reschedule because they were running late. I admit that most doctors don't seem to operate that way.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Where did your other comment go?

by Anonymous 11 years ago

This is about the first highest scoring post of the day in a month that has has more than +100. sad.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Excuse you? I had one 17 days ago.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

I said ABOUT

by Anonymous 11 years ago

yeah excuse you

I think I had a 100+ posts too within the months of October/November 2012

by Anonymous 10 years ago

inb4 "I said ABOUT" hehe

by Anonymous 10 years ago

Um... It made PoTD?

by Anonymous 11 years ago

No, like the highest scoring opinions today. That's what I meant.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

One of the reasons doctor's offices over schedule is so that the doctors stay busy.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Why would they want to stay busy?

by Anonymous 10 years ago

If you're paying an employee $200,000, you want them to stay busy.

by Anonymous 10 years ago

Who pays doctors?

by Anonymous 10 years ago

The doctor's office and hospitals they work for...

by Anonymous 10 years ago

I thought insurance paid them. wary

Aren't there part timers? MAN, THIS IS CONFUSING.

by Anonymous 10 years ago

Either way, somebody's paying them their salary and that entity or individual wants to get their money's worth. I can't speak for private family doctors or anything because I've never experienced one and don't know what waiting times are like for them.

by Anonymous 10 years ago

Gotcha. I figure you wouldn't want to keep a doctor too busy in order to reduce human error. Wouldn't want them overworked and whatnot.

by Anonymous 10 years ago

drs seem to think their time is more important than ours

by Anonymous 5 years ago