30-08-2013, 12:30 AM
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Medical appointments
Sitting for hours in waiting rooms at hospitals drives me nuts.Many a time I have asked other people waiting what time their appointment was for and they say, for example, 10am, which was the same as mine. Then someone else says theirs is too, and then another one and so on. I can understand to a point, that they might make a couple of appointments at the same time incase one doesn't turn up, but why do they have to go mad and book in a bus load at the same time?
In our local hospital they have a white board up telling us which doctors are working that day, and at the bottom of the board there is a section to fill in saying roughly how late they are running that day. Good idea in theory, but they never, ever, fill anything in! So I sit there with Mother, waiting and waiting, and it really bugs me that no one has the courtesy to either apologise, or explain that they are running very late. It doesn't seem to enter their heads that sometimes people might have to be somewhere else afterwards as well, , and can't always spare the time to wait for hours.
(Should this be on the Grumpy pages)?
30-08-2013, 07:13 AM
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Re: Medical appointments
Yes why not. I know what you mean as I have done quite a lot of waiting at hospitals lately with others. I also had the misfortune to go to a annexe of the hospital this week. Not bad only 3 minutes after my appointment time I got in. So chuffed with that. Then after the consultation I was told I would have to get my first prescription from the main hospital as they didn't dispense from this annexe of the hospital.I got a bus and went to the Pharmacy at the big hospital. I had to wait nearly 2 hours for my order. Did complain though as was told they didn't have what I wanted in stock so had to send somewhere else for them, hence the wait.
So must admit with being a companion for others and doing my own thing I also have spent what seems like half my life sitting in waiting rooms at hospitals. I take my MP3 player and keep myself alive listening to my music otherwise I too would be crawling up the walls.
30-08-2013, 07:40 AM
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Re: Medical appointments
I can't tolerate waiting for any reason, on Wednesday I telephoned through an order for a takeaway at 6.15pm, I was told to collect at 6.45pm which I did, I left the shop at 7.05pm, I was seething, my problem, other customers seemed content to sit there all evening.
30-08-2013, 08:38 AM
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Re: Medical appointments
I have been given 2 appointments on my birthday, and one of them is 5-30 pm and it is a 6 hour starvation one, the other they made for me was 10 - 30am, I told them to change that to later and they have, at 3 - 30 pm at long last common sense has prevailed.They could easily have been in two different hospitals, 15 miles apart.
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