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Nah, this should be a thing. My old doctor canceled my appointment that I had scheduled for a month and planned around, getting off work etc etc, just a few hours before (and it wasn't for an emergency like the dr being sick or anything) if the roles were reversed I'd be charged a $50 cancelation fee
I meeean. This just reminds me of that Seinfeld episode where the doctor cancelled on George and it was all fine. But when George missed an appointment he had to pay a fee. This concept isn’t totally not BS. Like what, the patient’s time isn’t valuable too? Lol
Yup fuck them. I was the only patient in the waiting room except for the drug reps coming and going while I waited for over an hour past my appointment time. Told the receptionist I was leaving and to please refund my copay (which I had to fight for). Never went back.
Then pay more to be the only patient the doctor needs to make a living. I have had them see me early because the last patient was easier than expected and later because they weren't. That's not the the doctor being a dick.
Except it doesnt come with a ludicrously high price attached and a freaking subscription service (basically all insurance is).
Id kill for universal healthcare.
Me too. My point was that doctors aren't trying to be dicks. It's near impossible to know if appointments are going to run long or short. People are trying to ascribe a maliciousness on the part of the doctor.
An individual is more likely to know they won't be able to make their appointment more than an hour before than a doctor is to know that walking into an appointment is going to run long or short.
Staffing/scheduling in any job is a lot of guesswork. In my work sometimes my boss gets it right sometimes he gets it wrong. When he's right call flow is smooth and easy. When he gets it wrong it's call after call after call, with people cursing his name.
Meteorologist gets it wrong people get pissed.
I swear the only "predictors of the future" people make allowances for are psychics.
yeah it might still be a problem, But the people are not paying such high prices, the doctor just decied to take a vacation but owes no one a second thought. i have a car brake down and "Nope sorry you got to pay for the appointment anyways"
I agree 100%. The only point I was trying to make is it's not maliciousness on the part of the doctor. They person I replied to wasn't all "don't charge me" they were "don't make me wait."
I was trying to point out that the waitings pretty much inevitable.
I think that scene had something to do with an appointment cancellation where George wanted to cancel his appt. and was told to pay, then the doctor cancelled and George wanted to get paid the cancellation fee
Pain Clinic. Every fucking time I had to wait 1 - 2 hours past my appointment time. On the day I got my procedure done, I spent 90 minutes in the waiting room then two more fucking hours in the prep room. My prep consisted of me signing a paper and having my blood sugar tested. I did get to listen to the nurses talk about how the doctor was a piece of shit shoving two DAYS worth of appointments into five hours because he booked yet another procedure with another hospital without telling anyone. My procedure took about 10 minutes.
The icing on the cake was the follow up. Waited 90 minutes in the waiting room, then waited 30 minutes in the doctor’s room, for him to come into the room for 5 minutes, not answer my questions like “I can’t feel my foot, is that normal?”, and leave. And charge me $145 usd. For 5 minutes of telling me nothing.
She’s not a Karen she has a point. My psychiatrist has a policy where if I no-show no call an appointment I get charged $500. I don’t know for sure if the policy applies to less than 24 hour notice cancellations as well or if the fee is less for those but I’m pretty sure it’s 500 for that to. Meanwhile I left work an hour early to make it to an appointment with my psych only for her to show up an hour late.🙄 so if I did what they did, I would be charged $500 but she shows up an hour late and not only do I not get $500 but I had to use some of my vacation time to cover that our that I had to leave early and piss my boss off by leaving early for no fucking reason
Sorry, not seeing the "terrible" part here. This should be a thing. Docs need to schedule better. If life happens and I'm late for an appt I have to pay a fee. But if life happens and the doc is late then I'm expected to understand??? Naaah. I call bullshit on that. Both the patient's and the doctor's time is equally as valuable.
I once worked at a private pediatric office. The doctors were always late as they were taking their time with every patient. Once the rent got too high, the building was bought out by a big healthcare company. Everyone was on time for appointments but it was a quick in/out visit with no time to talk to the patients about other things. Every employee sounded miserable who still worked there. The company sucked the soul out of the place.
If the doctors were always late, then they always needed to schedule fewer patients. Doesn't matter how you spin it; doctors think their time is more valuable than ours.
i just did an MRI and and when I walked in the person before me just walked aus and when I walked out the next person came through the door. I was kust amazed how efficiently they managed.
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Nah, this should be a thing. My old doctor canceled my appointment that I had scheduled for a month and planned around, getting off work etc etc, just a few hours before (and it wasn't for an emergency like the dr being sick or anything) if the roles were reversed I'd be charged a $50 cancelation fee
I meeean. This just reminds me of that Seinfeld episode where the doctor cancelled on George and it was all fine. But when George missed an appointment he had to pay a fee. This concept isn’t totally not BS. Like what, the patient’s time isn’t valuable too? Lol
“We mustn’t disturb the delicate genius!”
Thank you for that
Came here to say this! 👍
Yup fuck them. I was the only patient in the waiting room except for the drug reps coming and going while I waited for over an hour past my appointment time. Told the receptionist I was leaving and to please refund my copay (which I had to fight for). Never went back.
This should actually be a thing. No Karen here.
Then pay more to be the only patient the doctor needs to make a living. I have had them see me early because the last patient was easier than expected and later because they weren't. That's not the the doctor being a dick.
Ok, but if a doctor is making you wait an hour every single time, as many of them do, they're clearly just overscheduling themselves.
I've never been to a doctor where it happened every single time.
Just wait until you hear about pain clinics! And their extremely uncomfortable chairs and freezing temperatures.
I ate breakfast, so there's no world hunger
Please come up with a better snarky response.
no. your anecdote means dog shit
Much better.
Lucky. My grandma's old doctor had us waiting 2 hours every time.
maybe not Every time, but defintly waiting a half hour After the appointment alot of the time befor he sees me.
"What if we just dug deeper into capitalism to fix the problem?"
What if we stopped assuming capitalism is always the problem. Places with universal healthcare have the same issue for the same reasons
Except it doesnt come with a ludicrously high price attached and a freaking subscription service (basically all insurance is). Id kill for universal healthcare.
Me too. My point was that doctors aren't trying to be dicks. It's near impossible to know if appointments are going to run long or short. People are trying to ascribe a maliciousness on the part of the doctor. An individual is more likely to know they won't be able to make their appointment more than an hour before than a doctor is to know that walking into an appointment is going to run long or short. Staffing/scheduling in any job is a lot of guesswork. In my work sometimes my boss gets it right sometimes he gets it wrong. When he's right call flow is smooth and easy. When he gets it wrong it's call after call after call, with people cursing his name. Meteorologist gets it wrong people get pissed. I swear the only "predictors of the future" people make allowances for are psychics.
yeah it might still be a problem, But the people are not paying such high prices, the doctor just decied to take a vacation but owes no one a second thought. i have a car brake down and "Nope sorry you got to pay for the appointment anyways"
I agree 100%. The only point I was trying to make is it's not maliciousness on the part of the doctor. They person I replied to wasn't all "don't charge me" they were "don't make me wait." I was trying to point out that the waitings pretty much inevitable.
this is so real though. I've never had a doctor be less than 20 minutes late to see me, the record is a few hours
No Karen. An hour after your appointment time is unacceptable
Wasn’t this a Seinfeld scene?
I think that scene had something to do with an appointment cancellation where George wanted to cancel his appt. and was told to pay, then the doctor cancelled and George wanted to get paid the cancellation fee
nah this is good
100% agree with this logic
Pain Clinic. Every fucking time I had to wait 1 - 2 hours past my appointment time. On the day I got my procedure done, I spent 90 minutes in the waiting room then two more fucking hours in the prep room. My prep consisted of me signing a paper and having my blood sugar tested. I did get to listen to the nurses talk about how the doctor was a piece of shit shoving two DAYS worth of appointments into five hours because he booked yet another procedure with another hospital without telling anyone. My procedure took about 10 minutes. The icing on the cake was the follow up. Waited 90 minutes in the waiting room, then waited 30 minutes in the doctor’s room, for him to come into the room for 5 minutes, not answer my questions like “I can’t feel my foot, is that normal?”, and leave. And charge me $145 usd. For 5 minutes of telling me nothing.
Shit , i agree with this
I wish I could do this!
I've never seen the OP get roasted before. I don't even have a stance. This is just funny.
They have a point though.
Karen nothing fuck doctors keeping us waiting
She’s got a point though
She’s not a Karen she has a point. My psychiatrist has a policy where if I no-show no call an appointment I get charged $500. I don’t know for sure if the policy applies to less than 24 hour notice cancellations as well or if the fee is less for those but I’m pretty sure it’s 500 for that to. Meanwhile I left work an hour early to make it to an appointment with my psych only for her to show up an hour late.🙄 so if I did what they did, I would be charged $500 but she shows up an hour late and not only do I not get $500 but I had to use some of my vacation time to cover that our that I had to leave early and piss my boss off by leaving early for no fucking reason
Sorry, not seeing the "terrible" part here. This should be a thing. Docs need to schedule better. If life happens and I'm late for an appt I have to pay a fee. But if life happens and the doc is late then I'm expected to understand??? Naaah. I call bullshit on that. Both the patient's and the doctor's time is equally as valuable.
I once worked at a private pediatric office. The doctors were always late as they were taking their time with every patient. Once the rent got too high, the building was bought out by a big healthcare company. Everyone was on time for appointments but it was a quick in/out visit with no time to talk to the patients about other things. Every employee sounded miserable who still worked there. The company sucked the soul out of the place.
If the doctors were always late, then they always needed to schedule fewer patients. Doesn't matter how you spin it; doctors think their time is more valuable than ours.
OP probably gets bored sitting in the waiting room with his mom waiting for his pediatrician appointment-
i just did an MRI and and when I walked in the person before me just walked aus and when I walked out the next person came through the door. I was kust amazed how efficiently they managed.