Dear patients...
Mar. 19th, 2008 02:38 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ninevirtuesDear patients,
I've heard your collective complaints about waiting for doctors appointments, and I've heard how much you hate it when your doctor makes you wait for an hour before s/he sees you for the nationwide average of eight minutes of face time per visit.
Believe me, waiting like that irritates me too. So I try to be on time for you, my beloved patients. I allocate thirty minutes of uninterrupted face time for each and every one of you, in fact.
So, I would appreciate it muchly if you did not show up fifteen minutes late, halfway through "your" thirty minutes. When you do, I can either treat you for fifteen minutes (which is a waste of your driving time to get here and your insurance-mandated $30 copay) or I can back up everyone else behind you, and treat each and every subsequent patient fifteen minutes late.
Or-- wait, there's a third option. I can put you on the stationary bike for fifteen unsupervised minutes and bill your insurance company for "aerobic conditioning", the cost of which will eventually be returned to you in higher premiums (if you pay for your own) or lower wages (if your employer pays for your insurance). And believe me, none of us wants that.
Please be on time.
Con mucho amor,
Your biligual, pain-relieving, knee-unlocking, butt-kicking, insurance-billing physical therapist
I've heard your collective complaints about waiting for doctors appointments, and I've heard how much you hate it when your doctor makes you wait for an hour before s/he sees you for the nationwide average of eight minutes of face time per visit.
Believe me, waiting like that irritates me too. So I try to be on time for you, my beloved patients. I allocate thirty minutes of uninterrupted face time for each and every one of you, in fact.
So, I would appreciate it muchly if you did not show up fifteen minutes late, halfway through "your" thirty minutes. When you do, I can either treat you for fifteen minutes (which is a waste of your driving time to get here and your insurance-mandated $30 copay) or I can back up everyone else behind you, and treat each and every subsequent patient fifteen minutes late.
Or-- wait, there's a third option. I can put you on the stationary bike for fifteen unsupervised minutes and bill your insurance company for "aerobic conditioning", the cost of which will eventually be returned to you in higher premiums (if you pay for your own) or lower wages (if your employer pays for your insurance). And believe me, none of us wants that.
Please be on time.
Con mucho amor,
Your biligual, pain-relieving, knee-unlocking, butt-kicking, insurance-billing physical therapist
