A little word to the wise for anyone who is about to rather make their next doctor's appointment. If you can swing it, the earliest appointment possible is in the end. Therefore, in there, you will be able to get in and out, no muss, no fuss, just really going to get in there and pretty much get mostly out. Well unless there is something that is wrong with you, then there will be a whole lot of fuss.
However, if you have an appointment at the doctor's office after the first few, then be prepared to wait out a bit of time. And perhaps a bit more time if the doctor's appointment is much later. The worst part of your latest doctor visit will not be the bill(even if that is pretty bad) but rather the long wait.
A Long Wait in Doctor's Office is Inevitable
The huge problem is that there are a lot of doctors out there who have been practicing health care for a number of years. Therefore, they are from the old school way of medicine, with pen and paper, where there was no computers. These days, technology has moved on and those who have left behind, their hand was forced in many ways.
We all know that delays happen. An appointment goes ten minutes long, another goes five minutes long. Figuring out how long each person will be in the doctor's office is not an exact science. However it is one where the estimates are so grossly off. When someone has an 11:00 AM appointment for example and doesn't get back to see the doctor until almost one if not two, that is something that is unacceptable to many. Not so much for a routine checkup but if something was severely wrong with you, that is not happening with your stress level.
Most doctor's offices have sadly descended to a level of lesser competence. Where we are very much in a transition period. Hopefully you clear your day and bring a book, because you will find yourself spending a lot of quality time in the waiting room unless you are fortunate enough to have an early enough appointment where everything is not backlogged. Even beyond the usual delays, things are absurd. Such is the price to make sure we are healthy, I guess.
