My mother does two things whenever I take her to a doctor’s appointment:
Complain to everyone if she has to wait even a few minutes for her appointment to start
Endlessly ask the doctor pointless questions, repeat herself over and over again with the preface “and as I said”, and generally babble so her own appointment goes long past its scheduled length
A huge number of Gen X and boomers have a strange idea that you’re supposed to distrust and challenge doctors constantly. Like they’re going to try to cheat you or something.
It’s not that strange an idea given the extent to which the pharmaceutical industry essentially bribes doctors to prescribe their drugs, or the frequency with which health care organizations defraud Medicare and insurance companies, fraud which often takes the form of unnecessary medical procedures. Blindly trusting any professional is the strange idea (I agree that constant distrust is probably unhelpful).
How does that make sense lol. If everyone is 5 minutes late, then the whole schedule shifts back 5 minutes. The only way it builds into an hour long wait is if they’re being overbooked on an over optimistic schedule. Hoping they’ll only take X minutes but they actually take X+5, for example.
Speaking from experience, we’re an hour behind because 20 people were 5 minutes late
My mother does two things whenever I take her to a doctor’s appointment:
A huge number of Gen X and boomers have a strange idea that you’re supposed to distrust and challenge doctors constantly. Like they’re going to try to cheat you or something.
It’s not that strange an idea given the extent to which the pharmaceutical industry essentially bribes doctors to prescribe their drugs, or the frequency with which health care organizations defraud Medicare and insurance companies, fraud which often takes the form of unnecessary medical procedures. Blindly trusting any professional is the strange idea (I agree that constant distrust is probably unhelpful).
And definitely not from the over scheduling. Yep definitely not that.
I’ve had them be running late when i’m the first friggin’ appointment
Thats just the doctor getting stuck at starbucks on their way in.
How does that make sense lol. If everyone is 5 minutes late, then the whole schedule shifts back 5 minutes. The only way it builds into an hour long wait is if they’re being overbooked on an over optimistic schedule. Hoping they’ll only take X minutes but they actually take X+5, for example.
Or dealing with someone’s life threatening emergency and pretending it’s people being late.
It is really funny to me that, in general, medical professionals in the US still think people do or should broadly respect them.
… Why?
Nobody cares that you’re just following orders, that’s not a very good excuse.
Nobody cares that you have a boatload of debt you need to pay off… most people do these days.
None of that gives ya’ll societal permission to engage in possibly the most elaborate gaslighting fraud system that humanity has ever produced.
Ya’ll are supposed to have ethics, ‘first, do no harm’, yet you violate this routinely as a matter of course, “professionally”.
With few exceptions, you’re all hypocritical liars with God complexes.
You should know, better than most, that your intentions do not matter at all, outcomes do.