As a UK doctor, this made me laugh but equally part of the reason we run late is because of patients who don’t show up on time. If you have a full day of clinic (14 patients, say) and half of them are 10 minutes late, there’s your hour gone.
And don’t even get me started on my GP job, where I had 22 patients per day. You were pretty much reliant on some people not turning up to regain lost time from latecomers. Not to mention people would arrive at their 10 minute appointment with a list of 5 completely separate medical issues that they’d been saving up for months. So either you do a full history, examination, diagnosis and treatment plan +/- prescription in 2 minutes for each problem, or the 10 minute appointment just becomes a 20 minute appointment. And then you document everything in your lunch break or after you’re supposed to have gone home 🙃
As a UK doctor, this made me laugh but equally part of the reason we run late is because of patients who don’t show up on time. If you have a full day of clinic (14 patients, say) and half of them are 10 minutes late, there’s your hour gone.
And don’t even get me started on my GP job, where I had 22 patients per day. You were pretty much reliant on some people not turning up to regain lost time from latecomers. Not to mention people would arrive at their 10 minute appointment with a list of 5 completely separate medical issues that they’d been saving up for months. So either you do a full history, examination, diagnosis and treatment plan +/- prescription in 2 minutes for each problem, or the 10 minute appointment just becomes a 20 minute appointment. And then you document everything in your lunch break or after you’re supposed to have gone home 🙃