Doctor’s Appointment
What Time is Your Doctor’s Appointment?
Does it matter? You’ll sit in a 6X5 room for an hour or longer just waiting to be graced by their presence. I really didn’t want to post a “Grinds My Gears” post today, but I’m afraid I’m forced to.
A friend of mine had a doctor’s appointment today. “2:45 sharp” they said. She shows up early, waits in her cell until about 4:30 when she finally had no choice but to leave to go pick up her nephew. She left to go pick up her nephew when her brother called and said he could pick him up. She went back into the office at 4:40 and they would not let her in to see the doctor. They said that because she left, he would not see her and she would have to reschedule… and they snickered as my friend was crying in pain.
Oh how our health care system is such a joke here in the US. I really just get upset when I think about the scumbag doctors, pharmaceutical companies, pharmacies, and others that only care about the mighty dollar. Who ARE these people??? I am a transportation broker and even I’M available to my customers 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. It’s called “customer service”, but doctors absolutely do not care about their patients, so you will not receive any customer service from doctor’s or their staff. Have you tried to call your doctor after hours when you need something? Haha, I know, that’s funny.
I believe that the medical profession is quite possibly the most unprofessional profession, at least as our system is set up here in the US. These mostly spoon-fed, egocentric, db’s go through school with one main motivator: “I want to impress people with my status”. Their other motivator? Money. They absolutely couldn’t care less about you. If you don’t believe me, I challenge you right now. Call your doctor (wait, do you even HAVE their after hours number?), and ask them if you can come over and have them take a look at any illness you may have. I’ll wait a minute…
Well, what did he/she say? …I rest my case (unless you of course have one of the few and far between that actually do give good customer service. In that case, consider yourself very lucky!).
If my customers call me… I’ll do anything I possibly can to help them, at ANY time. I’m sure most of you are probably the same way. We can sleep well at night knowing that we are better people than 95% of the doctor’s here in the US. Ahhhh, I feel better already.
![[del.icio.us]](http://www.conservativesandnormals.com/blog/wp-content/plugins/bookmarkify/delicious.png)
![[Digg]](http://www.conservativesandnormals.com/blog/wp-content/plugins/bookmarkify/digg.png)
![[Google]](http://www.conservativesandnormals.com/blog/wp-content/plugins/bookmarkify/google.png)
![[LinkedIn]](http://www.conservativesandnormals.com/blog/wp-content/plugins/bookmarkify/linkedin.png)
![[StumbleUpon]](http://www.conservativesandnormals.com/blog/wp-content/plugins/bookmarkify/stumbleupon.png)
![[Windows Live]](http://www.conservativesandnormals.com/blog/wp-content/plugins/bookmarkify/windowslive.png)
![[Yahoo!]](http://www.conservativesandnormals.com/blog/wp-content/plugins/bookmarkify/yahoo.png)
![[Email]](http://www.conservativesandnormals.com/blog/wp-content/plugins/bookmarkify/email.png)
Tags: Grinds My Gears, Social Issues
Castanza on 
doctors are the worst… agreed. They treat people like sheep, just try to get as many through the door as possible, not worried about how long you have to wait when they ALWAYS over-book.
one of the few advantages of living in France (besides spending twice what you do for gas) is that this would never happen here. I can pop in to my doctor without an appointment and give a 30 second update and he will either tell me to wait, or to come back the next day.
That sounds great. One of our problems is that as our professionals increase in status, they gradually detach themselves from the people, padding layers and layers of middlemen between them and their patients, constituents, etc.. I dream of the day when I can go in to my doctors office like you described.