Wednesday 2 June, 2004
Waiting
It's always like this. I'm sitting at my doctor's surgery, on time as always and she is late as always. Typically I have to wait around 20 minutes, even when my appointment is among the first ones in the morning.
I remember one time I was two minutes late and I ran in apologising - the receptionist looked at me coldly and said that it was probably ok. I waited almost half an hour that time.
I don't understand what's so difficult about time management.
Later at home: It's not that I don't like my doctor, I think she's otherwise very nice and capable. But for example today, I was her first patient (she was doing an afternoon surgery) and still she was 15 minutes late.
Posted by kolibri at 2 June 15:39, 2004One of my teachers back in med school used to say that there are exactly two kinds of doctors: those who are always on time, and those who are always late. You apparently have found one of the latter...
But don't worry, as the teacher also claimed that he had never observed any relationship between the tendency and the actual professional skills of the doctor. "Only between being late and what the patients *think* of your competence."
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