I will never understand...
Jul. 28th, 2003 03:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rikibethwhy the doctor's office can't give you a REAL time for your appointment.
Charlotte's fever was down this morning, so we sent her to camp. The camp nurse called us before 10:30, to tell us her fever was back up. So I called the doctor,and they said "bring her in at 1:40."
I get there at 1:30, being considerate. Now, I wasn't wearing my watch, so I don't know exactly how long we spent in the waiting room, but it was long enough for me to finish an issue of Time cover-to-cover. That's definitely longer than 10 minutes. Plus, I was subjected to the annoying promotional health-tips-plus-ads video that they had playing on a constant loop in the waiting room, and the damned volume would not go down any further than the fairly loud setting it was on.
Then we get called in, and they weigh her, do the strep swab, and take her temperature, and leave us sitting for long enough for me to finish a Newsweek cover-to-cover, and to get halfway through a dumb women's magazine.
Finally, the doctor comes in, takes a quick look at her throat, and says "well, the quick test said it wasn't strep, but it kind of looks like strep, here's a penicillin prescription, call back on Wednesday for the culture results, if it's strep, finish the ten days, if it's not, just stop the penicillin."
By the time we got out of there, it was after 3.
What on earth was the use of having us SIT AROUND for so long? If the doctor couldn't see us until 2:30 or so, why not say "Come in at 2:30?"
I should have remembered to bring my knitting.
Charlotte's fever was down this morning, so we sent her to camp. The camp nurse called us before 10:30, to tell us her fever was back up. So I called the doctor,and they said "bring her in at 1:40."
I get there at 1:30, being considerate. Now, I wasn't wearing my watch, so I don't know exactly how long we spent in the waiting room, but it was long enough for me to finish an issue of Time cover-to-cover. That's definitely longer than 10 minutes. Plus, I was subjected to the annoying promotional health-tips-plus-ads video that they had playing on a constant loop in the waiting room, and the damned volume would not go down any further than the fairly loud setting it was on.
Then we get called in, and they weigh her, do the strep swab, and take her temperature, and leave us sitting for long enough for me to finish a Newsweek cover-to-cover, and to get halfway through a dumb women's magazine.
Finally, the doctor comes in, takes a quick look at her throat, and says "well, the quick test said it wasn't strep, but it kind of looks like strep, here's a penicillin prescription, call back on Wednesday for the culture results, if it's strep, finish the ten days, if it's not, just stop the penicillin."
By the time we got out of there, it was after 3.
What on earth was the use of having us SIT AROUND for so long? If the doctor couldn't see us until 2:30 or so, why not say "Come in at 2:30?"
I should have remembered to bring my knitting.
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Date: 2003-07-28 09:52 pm (UTC)The doctor said, start this but don't finish it?
GAH!
One of the reasons we are fighting more and more efficient germs is because so many people don't finish their antibiotics, and while they have knocked out enough of the bug to feel healthy again, they still have bugs in their system - and those are the bugs that are passed on to the next poor schmuck, who then finds out he has to take twice as much antibiotic to kill them all... or worse yet, the antibiotic doesn't work at all (look at tuberculosis and pneumonia for the next 'plagues.')
Granted, if it is a virus, the antibiotic will actually work against her immune systmem and she will get sicker.
But I can't believe the doctor set it up like that.