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Not! Ok here's my complaint...
Why do all doctors of all kinds maintain the same hours that most people work and most
schools follow? 9 to 5 with an hour, maybe even two hours off for lunch!!! (Well I'm
pretty sure the doctors aren't off for 2 hours, but their phone is!)
Ok it makes perfect sense if you're a stay at home mom with pre-school age kids, but
otherwise we are so out of luck!
First of all does the doctor ever just want to see you once? NO. No matter what your
illness, they want follow up after follow up to make sure you're as ok as you can be.
And this is a whole other gripe that I have. You get really bad, really fast service all to
get you back so you & your insurance company can be billed all over again.
But what I'm really wondering is why am I the only one who's ever tried to figure out a
better schedule for doctors. Don't they know that most people don't get sick Monday
thru Friday from 9 to 5? Last Friday night my daughter casually mentioned that her ear
hurt. I casually ignored it.

At 2 AM Saturday morning she woke me up to tell me the pain in her ear was so bad
that she couldn't sleep. I gave her 2 Ibuprofen's and gave her the thumbs up to read a
book. She eventually fell asleep. In the morning we rearranged schedules and I woke
her up to get her to urgent care when it opened at 9. We were out with prescription in
hand by noon. Knowing that it would take another hour to get the prescription filled, I
began to wonder for the umpteenth time why the growing pediatrician's office didn't offer
some doctor time on the weekends. Recently they've hired so many young doctors,
that we never even see the same one twice. Why couldn't one or two or three of them
work nights & weekends? This can't be a new idea.
At the same time I find myself constantly doing battle with the orthodontist's office and
the eye doctor, the dentist, the pediatrician, the cardiologists and every other type of
doctor the kids need to see because...when do they want to schedule you? “We only
have appointments from 9 to 2 available, which time do you want?”
“I don't want any of those times, this isn't a serious issue and I don't want to take my
kids out of school.”
“Oh but you'll have to or you won't be able to get in...let me see” they flip through their
book, “for another six months!”
Why oh why can't these offices extend their hours...earlier in the day, later in the day,
weekends? It's a big world out there and we're tired of arranging our lives around your
comfy schedule!
And here's the other thing! How would you like to be a business owner of any size and
have people taking off during the day to go to their doctors appointment or take their
children to the doctor? How productive is that? And the doctors office isn't down the
hall, it requires usually a distant drive!
I think it's crazy. I think it's wrong. There's got to be a better way. And I don't think it
requires a brain surgeon to figure it out!!!

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