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I mean - it already takes months to get an appointment. If they schedule even fewer patients I don't see that improving either.
If they schedule fewer patients then maybe they'd feel like they have time to talk to me and we'd actually solve my issue so I don't come back two weeks later, further gumming up the system. "Even fewer"? A recent doctor experience I had was arriving early for a 9:45 appointment to an absolutely jam packed waiting room where I had to wait literally almost two hours to be seen. By your logic, they weren't seeing many patients and it's a bad solution to see fewer. At one point it was announced they were about an hour behind schedule. Even that was very incorrect for me, almost by a factor of 2.
I cannot pinpoint all the problems behind the scenes but it's 100% clear multiple people are not operating honestly. If you make an appointment time, you should plan to not have patients wait hours past that. You the doctor office did something wrong and it was avoidable. They probably over scheduled and then also the doctor came in late. Again I don't know the details but I do know they fucked up and that's not uncommon and it's also not something to dismiss as patients expecting too much.
There's a huge problem with staffing and insurance bullshit in the medical field. 20 years ago, if I got sick I could see my GP usually the same day. Now it takes months to get an appointment, so people go to urgent care or the ER.
A doctor friend explained to me years ago a huge part is insurance companies. He explained that if he prescribed an MRI, he personally had to speak to an adjuster on the phone that had a literal timer requiring them to be on the phone for 20 minutes. They want to inconvenience the doctors into not prescribing procedures or medicines that cost more money.
Yeah, I agree the system is fucked up from the top down. Doctors do not deserve all the blame for sure. Mainly, I'm just likely to not be forgiving of crazy wait times if the doctor also sucks at providing care. A lot of them do suck, unfortunately. Really makes you appreciate the good ones.