I actually did ask my Doctor about why this happens once. Mainly it’s because if a patient before you has something that needs more time it messes up the schedule for every patient after… and this happens every single day. If no one cancels their appointments, then this problem just continually compounds throughout the day. The best bet to being seen on time is to be the first patient of the day.
Or just intentionally show up a few minutes late and take the mild scolding from the receptionist. It’s not like they’re going to turn ya away
I wish that were true. It isn’t. My doc routinely sets me up as his first or second patient of the day and he’s always late. Docs seem to like blaming patients for their own faults.
Think about it. If the clinic staff are slow to room the patient, the physician likely tries to account for that. Additionally, your doc may have been rounding on folks (checking in on other patients) in the morning - e.g., say they did a surgery the day before, it’s often best practice to drop in to make sure people are recovering well.
All of this adds complexity to an MDs schedule. Not to say that timeliness doesn’t matter or that your time isn’t important, but it’s not always a matter of someone being late - it could be the result of patients not being roomed on time for the last 2 years, so your doc shows up at 8:15 because the clinic staff don’t normally have the first patient roomed by 8 am.
If that’s the truth then it’s even less acceptable than just simply being late.
My doc isn’t checking in on other patients when I’m his first patient of the day. His practice opens the same time he’s booking the appointment for but I’ve gotta wait 10-20 minutes for him to check in on other patients? Doubtful. Also, every single job I have ever had says that if you need to get stuff done then you show up early to get it done. This Doc can’t show up 10-15 minutes early to make some phone calls and check in on the patients?
If the patients aren’t being roomed on time because of staff that 2 years deep into incompetence, then maybe you should look into changing your employees over punishing your patients? That seems like the clinic staff are the problem. Not the patient. Why am I paying with my time because the clinics employees can’t do their jobs? It takes 1 minute, maximum, to get put into a room. You walk up to the screen, tell them your name, and then when a room is available they tell you to go to it. I cannot find a single reason why a Doc would think it’d take 15 minutes to get that done.
I actually did ask my Doctor about why this happens once. Mainly it’s because if a patient before you has something that needs more time it messes up the schedule for every patient after… and this happens every single day. If no one cancels their appointments, then this problem just continually compounds throughout the day. The best bet to being seen on time is to be the first patient of the day.
Or just intentionally show up a few minutes late and take the mild scolding from the receptionist. It’s not like they’re going to turn ya away
I wish that were true. It isn’t. My doc routinely sets me up as his first or second patient of the day and he’s always late. Docs seem to like blaming patients for their own faults.
Think about it. If the clinic staff are slow to room the patient, the physician likely tries to account for that. Additionally, your doc may have been rounding on folks (checking in on other patients) in the morning - e.g., say they did a surgery the day before, it’s often best practice to drop in to make sure people are recovering well.
All of this adds complexity to an MDs schedule. Not to say that timeliness doesn’t matter or that your time isn’t important, but it’s not always a matter of someone being late - it could be the result of patients not being roomed on time for the last 2 years, so your doc shows up at 8:15 because the clinic staff don’t normally have the first patient roomed by 8 am.
Source: wife is an obgyn
If that’s the truth then it’s even less acceptable than just simply being late.
My doc isn’t checking in on other patients when I’m his first patient of the day. His practice opens the same time he’s booking the appointment for but I’ve gotta wait 10-20 minutes for him to check in on other patients? Doubtful. Also, every single job I have ever had says that if you need to get stuff done then you show up early to get it done. This Doc can’t show up 10-15 minutes early to make some phone calls and check in on the patients?
If the patients aren’t being roomed on time because of staff that 2 years deep into incompetence, then maybe you should look into changing your employees over punishing your patients? That seems like the clinic staff are the problem. Not the patient. Why am I paying with my time because the clinics employees can’t do their jobs? It takes 1 minute, maximum, to get put into a room. You walk up to the screen, tell them your name, and then when a room is available they tell you to go to it. I cannot find a single reason why a Doc would think it’d take 15 minutes to get that done.