this post was submitted on 11 Jul 2024
1288 points (98.2% liked)

People Twitter

5268 readers
905 users here now

People tweeting stuff. We allow tweets from anyone.

RULES:

  1. Mark NSFW content.
  2. No doxxing people.
  3. Must be a tweet or similar
  4. No bullying or international politcs
  5. Be excellent to each other.

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
 
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] MisterFrog@lemmy.world 11 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I'm willing to bet this is more common than we all think, probably a self fulfilling prophecy.

Some doctors may get complacent thinking, oh I'll be late by the end of the day anyway.

At least, this has happened to me on a handful of occasions too.

But really, the problem is that the practices are booking too many appointments.

[–] NABDad@lemmy.world 13 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Yeah. My wife was an eye doctor in private practice, and she was positively militant about never getting behind schedule.

She very rarely ran behind. It would require a cascade of emergencies.

[–] MisterFrog@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Props to her, must have been a hectic job

[–] NABDad@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago

It was hectic. She loved being an eye doctor, but she hated running the practice. Unfortunately, she got sick and was not able to keep working.