I bring this up every time (and I recognize it’s a joke in this context) but I need to emphasize it’s administrations fault, not the doctor, usually. They force 15 minute appointments and a full schedule, which is simply not enough if anything complex takes more time. And that delay grows and grows throughout the day. You will get the worst delay right before lunch or right before the office closes, because you get to feel the extent of every delay combined
Note that the reduced delay after lunch happens if (as is usual) the doctor skips lunch. Medicine seems like a miserable profession for most specialties. Maybe my career is going to end soon because of AI, but I’m still so glad that I’m a software developer. I get paid a good fraction of what doctors get, but I’m treated so much better.
Yes very true. But at the same time you have two scenarios. 1, the doctors hired the administrators. 2, the doctors sold their clinic to a company that buys up clinics and sets up administrators that do this.
Now becuase many doctor owned clinics have sold out for a big payday, new doctors have much less choice in where they work. They usually can’t afford to open a private practice, so they have to start out working at clinics owned by corporations.
The lesson? Look for a private practice doctor any time you can. (In the US at least)
I bring this up every time (and I recognize it’s a joke in this context) but I need to emphasize it’s administrations fault, not the doctor, usually. They force 15 minute appointments and a full schedule, which is simply not enough if anything complex takes more time. And that delay grows and grows throughout the day. You will get the worst delay right before lunch or right before the office closes, because you get to feel the extent of every delay combined
Note that the reduced delay after lunch happens if (as is usual) the doctor skips lunch. Medicine seems like a miserable profession for most specialties. Maybe my career is going to end soon because of AI, but I’m still so glad that I’m a software developer. I get paid a good fraction of what doctors get, but I’m treated so much better.
So… Take the appointment right after lunch, and cancel 30 mins before so our homie family doc can eat in peace? Got it.
Loveeee when that would happen (but they definitely will bill you for a last minute cancellation)
Yes :)
Yes very true. But at the same time you have two scenarios. 1, the doctors hired the administrators. 2, the doctors sold their clinic to a company that buys up clinics and sets up administrators that do this. Now becuase many doctor owned clinics have sold out for a big payday, new doctors have much less choice in where they work. They usually can’t afford to open a private practice, so they have to start out working at clinics owned by corporations. The lesson? Look for a private practice doctor any time you can. (In the US at least)
Okay so let’s drag these administrators into the street and give em a piece of our minds. Just another capitalist pig