(12-01-2017, 11:27 AM)Rico Wrote: How could they take me back 20 minutes late for a 9:15 appointment when the doctor's office opens at 9:00?

That happens to me all the time.  One time I got the very first appointment of the day, 8:30 and finally saw the doctor at 9:15.  He was there.  I saw him walking around. 

Then there was the time I had a colonoscopy.  The printout they give you afterwards said everything was fine.  But the doctor scheduled an appointment to go over the results.  So a couple of weeks later, I go in, and I sat in the waiting room for 45 minutes past my appointment time, then they took me to one of the little examining rooms where I waited another 45 minutes, and finally the doctor comes in, and tells me everything is fine.   I saw the guy for maybe 3 minutes at the most, after waiting for an hour and a half.  The thing is, after waiting 45 minutes in the waiting room, while walking to the little examining room, I walked past his office and he was sitting there at his desk doing something. 

The way doctors cannot keep appointments is just intolerable.   It's either arrogance or incompetence.  Or both.

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