Have you ever wondered why you sit in a doctor's waiting room sometimes as long as two hours when you have an appointment? Then you sit in the exam room for a half hour or more?
Let's look at the definition of "appointment" as defined by Macmillan dictionary. Appointment: anarrangementtoseesomeoneataparticulartime, especiallyforabusinessmeetingortogetaprofessional service. Now it seems to me that the operative words are "a particular time." So why do doctors think that making 9:30 AM appointments for 5 different people is proper? One doctor can't be in 5 different rooms at the very same minute, can he? Does he plan on doing a group medical exam?
When I asked my doctor about this, he hemmed and hawed. Seeing that I was going to insist on an answer, he finally said that it was because some patients just didn't show up. The scheduling of simultaneous appointments assured him that he had a patient to see. In another words, it was so he didn't lose the money for that time. On that occasion, I let him think I was satisfied with his answer.
Ahha! So doctors think that their time is worth something, but the patients' time isn't. Well, my friends, that seems to be what they show us by making us wait and wait and wait.
I don't know about your doctor, but mine has a "no show or no 24 hour cancel" clause that says you pay for the office visit even if you don't get the use of it. Does that mean he gets paid double or even triple for that time? On my next visit, I think I'm going to ask him to justify it.