• Windex007@lemmy.worldEnglish
    47·
    12 days ago

    I went back to university as a mature student. Our prof was like 15 minutes late and some “did you know if the prof is 15 minutes late you’re legally allowed to leave?” Chatter started.

    Me, the ornery old man of 26 had to explain to the teenagers that they’re adults now and they can leave whenever the fuck they want. It’s about choices now, not compulsion.

  • Drusas@fedia.io
    36·
    12 days ago

    I will forever remember when an incompetent, misogynistic neurologist expressed utter shock when I ended the appointment.

    I reported him before I even left the hospital, and amazingly–miraculously!–, I got a message from him a couple of days later wherein he was taking my issues much more seriously.

  • Pronell@lemmy.worldEnglish
    17·
    12 days ago

    I once walked out after waiting for the doctor to show up for the appt for an hour.

    Next time I called, some eight months later, he no longer worked there, which was helpful as I was going to request someone new anyway.

    I like to think he was fired in part because of me, and I did tell the front desk why I was leaving at the time.

    • Drusas@fedia.io
      11·
      12 days ago

      I don’t know if that’s fair. Scheduling is not left up to the doctors, for the most part. Being an hour late is terrible and I would also be very frustrated by it, but that could be because he had a patient or two before you whose issues were much more serious or complicated than they seemed to be during scheduling.

      I don’t know. I see this from both perspectives, having been a patient of dozens of doctors at this point. It’s not always their fault. It’s not even usually their fault.

      • Pronell@lemmy.worldEnglish
        7·
        12 days ago

        Oh, I had other problems with that particular doc already and at no point was I told he’d be late or how long he would be.

        I was late to work in the end too.

      • Crashumbc@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        11 days ago

        In the US at least, almost all doctors have total ironclad control over their schedule.

        Source, worked 17 years in a mutli-hospital system that also had over hundred practices.

        Not saying shit doesn’t happen, I just spent an hour and a half at a Vet, because they had dog it by a car come in. But it’s mostly on the doctors themselves if it happens chronically.

      • GaMEChld@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        11 days ago

        Depending on the practice, doctors absolutely can have input on their schedules. And they often overbook themselves even when they are on call.