Doctors have responsibilities to their patients to give them excellent medical care, that is a given. If you are in the hospital, you are not on a time table. You wait for the doctor to finish the emergency case that just came up. That is expected and if you are the emergency case, then you will expect to get taken care of first.
But in a clinic setting, the doctor should at least show up at the appointed time. Last week I had to take my daughter to a specialist, and the doctor showed up 1 hour late!!
I teach students on-line as my main job and I had to cancel many classes to take my daughter to this doctor, and I had to wait and wait for him to even arrive! If he would have just started his appointments when he planned to arrive, ( an hour late) then I wouldn't have had to cancel so many students and lose money. I don't get paid for sick days, or if I have to take off. - That's the problem with free-lance teaching. . .
So, let's urge doctors also to give patients the courtesy of arriving on time! Teachers do it, businessmen do it, regular workers do it, why not doctors?
The time has arrived for doctors to know that being on time matters. A LOT!
I teach students on-line as my main job and I had to cancel many classes to take my daughter to this doctor, and I had to wait and wait for him to even arrive! If he would have just started his appointments when he planned to arrive, ( an hour late) then I wouldn't have had to cancel so many students and lose money. I don't get paid for sick days, or if I have to take off. - That's the problem with free-lance teaching. . .
So, let's urge doctors also to give patients the courtesy of arriving on time! Teachers do it, businessmen do it, regular workers do it, why not doctors?
The time has arrived for doctors to know that being on time matters. A LOT!
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