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Oh, boy, lemme tell ya.Listen, chances are, it’s not your doctor’s fault.So let’s say that the doctor’s first scheduled appointment of the day is at 9:00 AM. It’s a routine check-up. The patient shows up at the hospital at exactly 9:05 and gets tied up at the receptionists’ desk, providing ID and their health insurance card. The doctor doesn’t actually see this patient until 9:10.The doctor’s second scheduled appointment is at 9:20. Of course, the doctor is still with Patient 1 at 9:20 and is ten minutes late getting into the exam room with Patient 2. He doesn’t get to Patient 2 until 9:30.Patient 2 was supposed to be a routine check-up as well, but the patient thinks this would be a great time to tell the doctor all about her twelve-year-old granddaughter who is taking dance lessons and, in the patient’s eyes, is the best dancer in the entire school and belongs in a dance academy. The patient’s son has given her a smartphone and shown her how to take pictures, so of course the patient has to show the doctor all the fuzzy, blurry pictures she took of her granddaughter at her last recital. The doctor can find no polite way to duck out of this conversation.Patient 3 had an appointment at 9:45, and the doctor doesn’t get in the door to their exam room until 10:00. There is also a patient with a 10:00 appointment. The doctor now needs to be in two exam rooms at the same time, which obviously isn’t possible. Patient 3 turns out to be an easy, quick exam and the doctor is able to hustle into the exam room of Patient 4 at 10:15.Patient 4 is, again, a quick exam. The doctor is inwardly sighing in relief, thinking that they’re finally going to catch up to the schedule and maybe the rest of the day will go more smoothly.There’s another patient scheduled for 10:20, and the doctor is able to get to their exam room at 10:25. Or, at least, they would, if Patient 5 wasn’t still in the waiting area, filling out paperwork because they’re a new patient to the hospital and, despite the fact that their appointment was scheduled for 10:20, they didn’t roll into the hospital until 10:22. And they’ve got a whole packet of information to fill out.The time is 10:35 by the time Patient 5 has finished with the new patient packet. The doctor sees them in the exam room. Patient 5 has a lot of questions about the doctor and the practice and the hospital, which is typical.The doctor has another patient scheduled at 10:45. They don’t see Patient 6 until 11:00. There’s another patient scheduled for 11:00. Once again, the doctor is behind schedule.And then things take a turn for the worse.Patient 6 was supposed to have a routine check-up, but when asked about their exercise habits, they admit that they haven’t been able to exercise for about a week now because they just can’t seem to catch their breath. In fact, just walking from the waiting room to the exam room required them to stop and catch their breath. Their chest just feels so tight! And they’ve had this odd aching pain in their left arm for a day or two now…Patient 7 waits for over an hour in the waiting room while, unbeknownst to them, the doctor is transporting Patient 6 to a different wing of the hospital to stabilize them and find out how badly their heart is damaged. It is an emergency situation.At 12 PM, Patient 7 throws a fit at the receptionist, who can only tell Patient 7 that the doctor is unavailable and hopefully will become available soon. He yells that she’s been telling him that for an hour and now he’s leaving and he’s not paying his copay.The 11:20 Patient 8 also walks out the door. Together, they bitch and moan about how doctors always waste their damn time and that the doctor should feel like the horrible, terrible person they are. They wonder if doctors have a universal conspiracy to waste their patients’ time.Things happen.Patients earlier in the day than you show up late, they don’t show up with enough time to fill out the paperwork, they think the appointment is actually social hour. Emergencies happen that tie the doctor up.You are not your doctor’s only patient today. Others before you may have been inconsiderate or oblivious, or required more of your doctor’s time than was scheduled.In the end, doctors are only people and they are trying their best. Give them the benefit of the doubt before deciding that, “Oh yeah, they’re doing this on purpose!”

Thanks for A2A @Gopalkrishna Vishwanath sir!!!Although my city is in green zone, but yesterday unfortunately a new patient was tested positive for corona thus the local government put the complete lockdown again. So no one is allowed to go out from their homes even for groceries and milk too.As I was strolling on the roof of my home , I saw a boy in his 20s on bicycle, selling samosas. He was wearing shabby and tattered clothes but was still smiling and asked me to buy something. I think it must be his hunger that compelled him to sell items even in this lockdown.As i was desperately longing for going outside and having some good food , I requested him to give 4 samosas for 20rs.Here i was busy drooling over samosas , there was a car coming towards us. It was a police van in which 4 policemen were sitting with sticks. Suddenly, the car stopped before us and the four policemen came out and rushed towards the boy with sticks and a bag.They started reprimanding us. Standing beside him I was sweating profusely and expected to be punished by the policemen.So I rushed into my house immediately and was praying for the man standing outside. I thought he would be beaten and reprimanded by the policemen.But To my surprise, the policemen politely asked him his whereabouts and after having a small talk with him they gave him four food packets and told him to stay home instead punishing him. And the policemen tried to help him with some money but the boy refused to take it.This incident surprised and elated me a lot because I never expected from the police to behave like the same and it made me take a sigh of relief today. I was elated at that moment and asked the boy not to come again until the lockdown overs.Our police and doctors are doing their best to get rid of this virus.Let's hope for the best.👍Thanks for reading!!!Edit: thanks a ton for 5k+ upvotes.My another answer to read ,you Might like;Aman Namdev's answer to Has someone motivated you so much that you changed the entire course of your life?Aman🤗🙏

One of the many new patient forms to sign was an affirmation that I had received the “patients rights” brochure. I carefully paged through the packet, but there was no such brochure. I didn’t really care about yet another brochure, but on principle, I didn’t sign.I completed the rest of the packet and took it to reception to turn it in and ask for the brochure. The woman at the desk said she couldn’t provide it until I signed all the paperwork. I politely pointed out that that particular form was a legal acknowledgement that I received something I hadn’t. If she just gave me the brochure, I would happily sign right there in front of her. Again, this time testily, she refused.Rather than arguing the catch-22 any longer, I signed the form, she handed over the brochure, and I went in to my first and last appointment with that provider.