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I just waited 2 hours and 15 minutes yesterday at my doctor's appointment and still left without seeing the doctor my husband and I had some other stuff to take of. CRAZY!
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I've waited for about 2-3 hours a few times before. One time, I waited some good 2 and a half hours, went in for a yearly general check out, did the routine, doctor said I had to give out some blood in the Lab next door, for some general and routine testing; went to the lab and waiting for another hour. I was exhausted after that. Talk about being a "patient".
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The longest I waited for the Doctor was an hour saw my doctor This week. :wave:
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I have a good doctor so I don't have a long wait time, know when I go to the emergency room three to four hours.
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My doctor always runs late. The later your appointment is the longer you wait, so i learned to make early appointments with him. Waited an hour once to see him. ER visit about 90 minutes once.
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:dontknow: I go to the doctor once a month to get my perception refilled, the meds I take will not allow over 30 days without a doctors scrip. Everytime its an hour wait, alls he says is "Hi, How Ya Doing" then hands me the scrip. Go in at 10, out by 11 or 11:15 ..... BUMMER :sad1:
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like a year... but if cant doctor up myself ill go to urgent care... i been lazy and blessed that i have a good immune system
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I don't usually have to wait much more then 15 minutes to see my doctor,But when i lived in a border town it was a long time up to 3 hours. Some familys would show up with all there relatives and then go in and want the doctor to exam all of them. Without chargeing anymore for 4-6 then for 1 . It was awful. Er was even longer.
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Where do you live? There is a critical shortage of doctors worldwide. You are lucky if you see a nurse or a physycian assistant. I think the doctors are saved for more serious cases.
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jsmith96: I like your banner...but I think you meant- Hope you are happy & healthy.
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I don't know if this counts but...it was a long time to wait on a Doctor. I took my daughter into her pediatrician...she had some weird flu bug and on day 3 of her sleeping for 14 hours at a time...eating a pinch than back to sleep for a couple of more hours I'd had enough. He ordered some blood work on her and told me he was going out of the country for a week but to call the office if I hadn't heard from his staff in the next couple of days. When I called them not only did nobody answer but there was a voice mail saying, "do not leave a message on this machine; call ###:###:#### and refer to such and such's office for medical attention." I called that office and was told since they didn't order the blood work they couldn't get the results. 8 days after her visit I get a call from one of the nurses saying Dr wants to follow up with your daughter.
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3 hours and the doctor only talked to me for 4 minutes
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the longest time i waited to see a doctor was about an hour
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The longest I've ever waited to see a doctor was probably a little over an hour.
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OMG! Back in the day I remember long waits, but in the last fifteen years, my waits have been under 15 minutes. However, you just wait until Obama Care kicks in...it will get much worse! Not only that, the doctors will be so taxed, the quality of care will go down, and there will be months long waits for surgeries and tests and treatments. I remember the well known Canadian woman with a brain tumor who had to come to the US for treatment and surgery. Canada has an "Obamacare like" health system. Her wait was so long that she would have long since been dead when her number finally came up.
Then I read a story about a man in the UK (they have similar to Obamacare, too.) He weighed almost a thousand pounds. They had to remove him from his home with a wench and a flatbed truck, paid for with healthcare, cuz he was too huge for any Gurney or Ambulance. He needed to be hospitalized for months on end to be tube fed so he could lose weight. When he lost weight he was to be given a gastric bypass. One problem to hospitalizing him. Patient rooms were on the second floor. His weight would have collapsed the floor. So before he went in, a team of engineers were hired to stabilize the floor from below. Again charged to health care! No wonder their income taxes are 49 percent! Can you imagine working and handing 49 percent of your salary in taxes to the government? It will eventually happen here, thanks to Obamacare. People don't realize how this thing will morph into a monstrosity. Speaking of which, If Obama has his way, regarding firearms, we will be like the UK......No way to defend ourselves, and only the criminals will have firearms.
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People aren't looking at the current system and fail to realize it's not working. Example-
OMG! Back in the day I remember long waits, but in the last fifteen years, my waits have been under 15 minutes. However, you just wait until Obama Care kicks in...it will get much worse! Not only that, the doctors will be so taxed, the quality of care will go down, and there will be months long waits for surgeries and tests and treatments. I remember the well known Canadian woman with a brain tumor who had to come to the US for treatment and surgery. Canada has an "Obamacare like" health system. Her wait was so long that she would have long since been dead when her number finally came up.
And yet everyone here is complaining about long wait times. I'm sure it largely has to do with the area each of us lives in. I myself have waited 1.5 hours to see a doctor for a simple sprained ankle. "Obamacare-like" systems do work in many first world countries. The one example you gave is isolated. Either way, she still got help.
Then I read a story about a man in the UK (they have similar to Obamacare, too.) He weighed almost a thousand pounds. They had to remove him from his home with a wench and a flatbed truck, paid for with healthcare, cuz he was too huge for any Gurney or Ambulance. He needed to be hospitalized for months on end to be tube fed so he could lose weight. When he lost weight he was to be given a gastric bypass. One problem to hospitalizing him. Patient rooms were on the second floor. His weight would have collapsed the floor. So before he went in, a team of engineers were hired to stabilize the floor from below. Again charged to health care!
He actually had a horrible eating disorder and he couldn't afford to see a specialist due to their healthcare system not covering it. I guess if the healthcare system allowed that, the medical bill would have been much less. Seems in that specific instance that their system is much like ours atm-- nobody can really afford decent health insurance to cover ailments. The only difference is in the US, nobody pays the bill. Collection agencies are booming!
Again charged to health care! No wonder their income taxes are 49 percent! Can you imagine working and handing 49 percent of your salary in taxes to the government? It will eventually happen here, thanks to Obamacare
Indeed that would suck on an individuals economic level, but you will need to post sources of how such healthcare systems are failing miserably in firstworld countries. Last time I checked, most nations using such methods are more economically prosperous than ours.
People don't realize how this thing will morph into a monstrosity.
And it could! But something needs to be done about it. If you cannot throw a better system on the table or think the current care system is fair, you're either just being pessimistic or naive (no offense). When I had to pay 2000+$ out-of-pocket for a doctor to do 10 seconds of work (pop my shoulder back into place), something's wrong with the system.
Speaking of which, If Obama has his way, regarding firearms, we will be like the UK......No way to defend ourselves, and only the criminals will have firearms.
Where/when did Obama say he was taking everyone's guns away?
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About 2 hours to see the doctor.
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I learned a long time ago to call the clinic BEFORE I leave home to go to the clinic. I ask the receptionist if my doctor is running on time. They always tell me. So if he is on time, I head to the clinic. If he is running late, the receptionist tells me to come in at "such and such" a time.
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I will wait an hour (and be steaming mad) but after that I'm out of there. :BangHead: But in the mean time I do check th make sure that they have not over looked me or to see if I need to reschedule at a more convenient time. I feel that my time is just as valuable as theirs! :wave:
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Where I live we have so many clinics be them walk-in or by appt. plus our family doctor, the hospitals and still the waiting is forever. For my own family doctor many times I wait around an hour and a half. At the hospital I have waited 8 hours. Even the clinics can be about 4 hours. It's terrible. I know that we have medicare and that we are lucky to have these opportunities but really. When you already don't feel good and you have to wait with other sick people in a crowded waiting room, it isn't fun. Especially if you have kids or you are taking some time off of work. It really takes up a whole day by the time to get ready to go, you drive there, wait there, get seen and then go home. Many times it isn't worth it so I try to avoid it all together until I really need to be seen.
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I have waited 4 hours with my father to see his cancer doctor.
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I can't afford to go to doctor I don't have health insurance, but the emergency room 6 hours
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I waited one time for over 2 hours and I had a 4PM appointment and I did not get taken until shortly after 6PM. I was so angry also because other people came in and were taken
right away. Plus I learned that the doctor was backed up and behind in his schedule. I think it was due to the fact that most of his patients were elderly and he spent an
inordinate amount with them, probably longer than he should have. Plus when I expressed that I was not happy, he snapped at me and actually asked me, what am I doing here?
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The longest I've ever waited was an hour and a half.
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Since I work in a doctors office, I do know that sometimes emergencies can cause us to be behind. I tell my staff to let patients know when they come in if we are running behind due to emergencies though. However, I also know how often we run behind because he is on the phone, talking about sports with a patient instead of the reason they are at the office, etc. I won't wait longer than 20 minutes for an appointment myself. I tell the receptionist that I have a 15 minute waiting room policy when I make my appointments. I give it 20 minutes and if I have not seen the doctor, I leave - and tell someone on the way out why. It's an APPOINTMENT
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2 hrs
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I waited two and a half hours for a doctor once. Never again. If I haven't been called back in 10 minutes past my appointment time, I get up and leave. If I do get called back and wait more than 10 minutes I walk out.
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I learned a long time ago to call the clinic BEFORE I leave home to go to the clinic. I ask the receptionist if my doctor is running on time. They always tell me. So if he is on time, I head to the clinic. If he is running late, the receptionist tells me to come in at "such and such" a time.
Likewise, Mr doctor has a tendency to run behind so his office suggested that I call prior to leaving the house. This has worked well and I seldom have to wait.
I do know people in my area that have waited a long time (hours). In my eyes this is just plain inconsiderate.
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I have to say that, I once confronted a doctor, about him being late, and he stated that "he does not wait on Patients, Patients wait on him". This gives you an idea how these people think about your time.
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1 hour,,unless u count the er docter,, :dog:
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I HAVE WAITED 2 HRS AND 30 MIN. JUST ON MONDAY. I THINK THAT IS VERY UNFAIR BECAUSE PEOPLE HAS THINGS TO DO.
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I am one of those people that don't like to late for any appointment I have so I leave my house an hour before my appointment and sit in the parking lot until check in time which is about 15 minutes before the appointment. Now I have been taken in to the examination room and wait for more then an hour to see the doctor and found out the mark that show a patient hadn't been move to show I was in there. I also recently had a doctor order a breathing test for me after I told her no I wouldn't take the test due to having a chest cold. She wouldn't cancel the order and her staff insisted that the test had to be taken. I am no longer see that doctor and I told my insurance company that she should not be in our insurance plan due to her POOR bedside manner.
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When my longtime family doctor sold his practice and retired several years ago he had told me the dr. buying his practice was a good dr. and a good Christian so I tried to keep going there but after 2 different appts. that kept me waiting for over 2 hrs. I just had to change doctors. I was still working back then and did not like having to use my PTO sitting in a dr's office. The most I've ever had to wait at the dr.'s ofc. I switched to has been 30 minutes. I consider that long enough. I just don't think they need to try to schedule so many appts. cause any little thing that goes wrong or any patient that requires more than the 5-10 mins just bogs everybody down for the whole rest of the day. I know their time is valuable but I don't consider my time any less valuable just because I am not a doctor.
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My doctor is prett good. I think the longest I waited was 15 minutes. M sister waited 5 hours once to see a specialist! :BangHead:
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30 minutes
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Always wait at least an hour. But if reversed, and you are late for appt, they want to reschedule.
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I very seldom have to wait more than 10 or 15 minutes to see the doctor that I'm going to now. Day before yesterday I didn't even get to sit down before I was called back and then the doctor followed me right in the room. It's never been that fast before. I wasn't there more than 15 minutes total.
The doctor I used to go to required a very long wait and I always have to wait at least an hour to see the opthamalogist.
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I just waited 2 hours and 15 minutes yesterday at my doctor's appointment and still left without seeing the doctor my husband and I had some other stuff to take of. CRAZY!
That ain't nothing I have wiated 5 hous for a doctor,ans it is like that every time I go to that doctor.
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The longest I think I have ever waited is about 3 hours. I only wait about 5 minutes to go back with my new doctors. After I am in a room the doctor is in there within 15 minutes, one most visits. There are times that I walk in, go straight back, doctor in room and out within 30 minutes. Which is awesome! For me scheduling is everything. The time of the appointment makes a difference in the amount of time I have to wait. I love first thing in the morning or after lunch appointments....in and out. :)
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I went to the doc yesterday and sat in the waiting room for 2 hrs. After asking the receptionist if they had forgotten about me, they took me to his office where I sat waiting for another 3/4 hr! When he eventually came in the whole appointment only lasted 4 minutes! My whole afternoon was wasted :'(
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I think I waited an hour last time I went which was normal. I had to wait longer at the dentist.
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Seeing the doctor can be a pain in the *bleep*. The longest I ever waited was couple hours.
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The longest I waited for a doctor was an hour. :heart:
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I just waited 2 hours and 15 minutes yesterday at my doctor's appointment and still left without seeing the doctor my husband and I had some other stuff to take of. CRAZY!
longest time for me at the doctor's office was 2 hrs and 20 mins. its rediculous that they make you wait that long.
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4 hours at the emergency room. >:(
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While I understand that doctors have a lot of patients to see, I don't see myself waiting that long to find out the day is almost over. There are a lot of times when patients are visiting the doctor just to get the medicine. I have waited maybe 30 or 45 minutes at the least and over 2 hours at the most. Do not mention the emergency room! I waited in there so long my leg went numb, and I was going because my baby toe on my right foot was broken. :sad1:
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I guess the longest time I went was after I had my daughter. I did not go back to the ob for about seven years.
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i once waited three hours :o
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i use to go to a dr that i had to wait 2 hours almost every time i changed drs and now am in and out ususally within 1hour
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well about i want to say about 6 years i went when i was seven and not again till i was 13 but now i go for check ups every year my mom finally got the hang of it :P
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30-40 mins max! I lived in a small town growing up so the Dr office wasnt busy 24/7! :) I don't go to the Dr anymore! Medicines make you weak!
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I live in a small city so I don't have to wait an extremely long time to see a doctor, but when we had to take our daughter to a university hospital, we waited for hours before seeing someone, that was terrible, because we had an 6 hour drive to get back home.
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3 hours and the doctor only talked to me for 4 minutes
Yeah, that is the kicker, you go, you sit for a couple of hours waiting and then you go in for just a few minutes. What good is an appointment, if you still have to wait for hours, what would happen if you didn't have an appointment.
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I have waited 2 weeks to even get an appointment to see my doc