A few "five minutes late" appointments go by, and before you know it they're an hour behind! It's crazy
Let's blame them.
this post was submitted on 03 Apr 2026
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Maybe, and I don't doubt that urgent appointments happen and they try to squeeze them in and I understand that, one day it might be me.
But talking specifically about my kid's pediatrician and my wife's obstetrician, we several times were scheduled for a specific time, and we came to learn we were scheduled in 10 to 15 minutes windows, and most times the appointment would last for at least 20 to 30 minutes.
So they do have some blame, and they charge too much not to have some semblance of time keeping.
I'd rather wait for the doctor that takes its time to diagnose everyone than the one that is always on time
Bold of you to assume they're not just taking in way too many ~~customers~~ patients
What are they supposed to do? Turn away sick people?
βSorry you think you have an infection. Just deal with it for a few more weeks until I have timeβ
Have a system that doesn't pressure and schedule dr's for maximum profit. Have a system of education that doesn't cap the number of dr's graduated per year. Tis the squeeze of capitalism.
Maybe the one that's always on time is just really good at diagnosing.
"Cancer. Get out. Erectile dysfunction. Get out. Missing a leg. Get out."
Dam I thought it was just an inner ear infection giving me balance issues.
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I would rather they manage their appointments like they value everyone's time. Not everyone has an hour to wait PAST when they say they are available.
The doctor's office when they're an hour behind because people keep coming in late.
My mum is a nurse. From what she tells me, almost all wait times are caused by the doctors who book too many patients and appoint each patient too little of time.
I've had appointments at opening time and they're still half an hour late. Doctor strolling in 15 minutes after the appointment time.
That'll be $47,000
As a Canadian I genuinely canβt tell if this is an exaggeration or not.
I have a "fun" american anecdote for you then! The office that gave me crap for being late a while back is also coincidentally the expensive one.
I'm on a biologic medication that I get every month via IV. I get the infusions at a cancer treatment center at the local hospital. The chairs are comfy and the nurses are amazing. They will actually give me free snacks and drinks too. I am typically there for about two hours.
The amount they charge my insurance company? About a new BMW.
What my insurance company actually pays them? Surprisingly, about a new Honda!
Did you have to pay the difference out of pocket? Or is there a discounted price for insurance providers to pay that laypeople arenβt approved for?
Whenever I go to the doctor, hospital, etc I just give them my health card (which is freely provided to every Canadian citizen) and they punch in the number into their system, then thatβs that. I donβt have to pay or contact insurance or anything. Some stuff doesnβt count such as the dentist but dental care is almost always provided through work benefits.
Oh boy, I get to do more Freedumsplaining!
The luxury sport sedan price is the fake sticker price they bill up front.
The sensible commuter sedan price is the secret agreed-upon price that the insurance actually pays out to them.
The out of pocket costs are a completely separate number, where the individual is responsible for all the costs until they hit their deductible (and sometimes pay a percentage for a while until they hit a second complete out of pocket limit).
For some of us, however, there is a silver lining to this shitcloud. Obviously when a 2-hour stint in a chair gets paid out actually for real at tens of thousands of dollars, that money is not going to the wonderful nurses poking my arm and checking on me. Therefore, it is very much in the best interests of the pharmaceutical shareholders that I do not stop my treatment just because I can't afford it. So these companies have copay assistance programs that will pay your out of pocket costs, with no income threshold.
So the reward that I get for having a health condition is... I effectively get decent healthcare coverage as an American. For 11 months of the year. If something bad happens in early january it can cost a few grand in the blink of an eye.
You can't be on government insurance and use those programs though. But Medicaid on its own is great coverage.
Depends on about a billion of different factors, but the answer could range from "yeah it's an exaggeration" to "its actually a pretty generous estimate"
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Oh, you see an actual doctor? I haven't seen an actual doctor in the last like 3 years, always just a physicians assistant or other nurse.
Still get charged the dr copay though, funny how that works.
I wouldnt be surprised if the doctor is an AI construct and theyre just running my symptoms through whatever insurance company provided AI bullshit at this point.
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I love how multiple people itt are defending doctors making us wait up to an hour after our appointment time as if it's not 90% their fault
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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:
- 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.
That's because a lot of doctors are untrustworthy (being people), and as the years roll by many have watched our loved ones suffer and die in horrifying pain
IT WILL HAPPEN TO YOU
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).
Boy, isn't that a great system?
This is all literally all not a thing here. Hospitals aren't usually private businesses at all and taking bribes is in fact illegal.
Yet older generations still distrust doctors here too
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Possibly because in the past there was a notion that doctors would lie to their patients "for their own good", and that the doctor's decision about your care was something you had to just accept.
The notion that patients could advocate for their own care arose during the boomers' lifetime.
And definitely not from the over scheduling. Yep definitely not that.
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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.
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Or dealing with someone's life threatening emergency and pretending it's people being late.
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A few years ago I was heading to the major city children hospital near us for a post op follow up for my kid. GPS said it would take 1.5hrs to get there so I left 2hrs early to make sure we get parking and we're able to get to the appointment early. Well traffic ended up being so bad it took 4hrs to get to the hospital. I called ahead of time and asked if it was ok that we still go to the appointment because we were running way later than expected. The doc office said it was fine and to just get there as soon as we could. So we got to to hospital and up to the office and they saw us right away. Well the doc gets in the room and she starts yelling at me about being late and how disrespectful it is and how us being late impacts everyone's day. I apologized a few times as she continued to yell. Finally I said calmly "ok lady we get it. I apologized and I called ahead and your office folks said it was fine.". Well she lost it on me after that. She said "DO NOT SCREAM AT ME OR THREATEN ME!", then she told the nurse to call security to escort me out. I very calmly said "I did not yell. I did not threaten anyone. I simply said we understood and I don't need to be lectured on it. It's sounds like we all have had a stressful morning so let's just continue with the appointment and call it a day." And that is exactly what we did. Any followup we have had since then has been very pleasant. Just caught her on a bad day I guess.
Having a bad day is one thing. Taking it out on your patient by lying, yelling, threatening, and trying to delay their care is quite different. You must be a very forgiving person because I would have plastered details of that interaction on Google, social media, local news, their boss (if they have one), etc. Unless they're literally the only person with that expertise in the world, no one should have to be treated like that...
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I had a scheduler get mad at me for being 5 mins early instead of 15. I still waited another 10 in the lobby
Oh, your bureacracy is complicated?
Cool, I don't care.
Tell how much this is gonna cost before I obtain the service.
Can't even come close to doing that?
Fraud, as far as I'm concerned.
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