You don’t overschedule, people start complaining that too many doctors aren’t taking new patients. You try to increase the amount of doctors and people complain about immigration. Can’t win
Powerful lobbies are surpressing the number of doctors practicing in the US. If a foreign doctor wants to emigrate and practice here they cannot until they pass TOEFL (reasonable) AND finish US-based residencies, of which there are few. I know a Russian dermatologist who has been a receptionist for years because she cannot get ECFMG certification. Some states are wising up and waiving the residencies, but way more need to do it.
I’m not complaining about immigration. Only idiots and assholes complain about that.
Doctors might schedule less patients per day and increase the number of patients seen overall. It’s not like over scheduling doesn’t have other effects besides being infuriating. It means they rush through the visit, ask few follow-up questions and decrease the chance I’ll have a solution in that one visit. I may have to come back again after the useless piece of non-applicable advice they gave me doesn’t work.
I guess a lot of lemmings work in doctors offices or something. It’s not an unfair ask at all to not routinely wait many minutes past your appointment time. It’s very fair. Yet itt several users push back against this idea as though the waiting isn’t anyone’s fault. Yes, it is. And we deserve better.
As a professional patient, trust me, I know. Short, pointless appointments are the bane of my existence. But I’m rural, and someone not taking patients can mean I have to travel a couple hours to the nearest big city. It’s a giant asspain all around
You don’t overschedule, people start complaining that too many doctors aren’t taking new patients. You try to increase the amount of doctors and people complain about immigration. Can’t win
Powerful lobbies are surpressing the number of doctors practicing in the US. If a foreign doctor wants to emigrate and practice here they cannot until they pass TOEFL (reasonable) AND finish US-based residencies, of which there are few. I know a Russian dermatologist who has been a receptionist for years because she cannot get ECFMG certification. Some states are wising up and waiving the residencies, but way more need to do it.
I’m not complaining about immigration. Only idiots and assholes complain about that.
Doctors might schedule less patients per day and increase the number of patients seen overall. It’s not like over scheduling doesn’t have other effects besides being infuriating. It means they rush through the visit, ask few follow-up questions and decrease the chance I’ll have a solution in that one visit. I may have to come back again after the useless piece of non-applicable advice they gave me doesn’t work.
I guess a lot of lemmings work in doctors offices or something. It’s not an unfair ask at all to not routinely wait many minutes past your appointment time. It’s very fair. Yet itt several users push back against this idea as though the waiting isn’t anyone’s fault. Yes, it is. And we deserve better.
As a professional patient, trust me, I know. Short, pointless appointments are the bane of my existence. But I’m rural, and someone not taking patients can mean I have to travel a couple hours to the nearest big city. It’s a giant asspain all around