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.
