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If you've tried to schedule a doctor’s appointment recently, you might have had to flip your calendar to a different season. There simply aren’t enough physicians in the U.S.: By 2037, the ...
Noticeably fewer people are entering waiting rooms, schoolyards and mosques, community leaders say. Immigrant rights advocates have decried what they call an erosion of rights to basic services.
Everyone dreads doctor's appointments. After navigating a maze of scheduling hurdles, patients find themselves waiting 26 days on average to see a physician in major cities. The whole ordeal ...
In a 2009 survey of physician appointment wait times in the United States, the average wait time for an appointment with an orthopedic surgeon in the country as a whole was 17 days. In Dallas, Texas the wait was 45 days (the longest wait being 365 days). Nationwide across the U.S. the average wait time to see a family doctor was 20 days.
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Waiting to get an appointment with a physician, staying in a waiting room before an appointment, and being observed during a physician's watchful waiting are different concepts in waiting for healthcare. When a patient is waiting, their family and friends may also be waiting for an outcome. [1] [2] Waiting time influences patient satisfaction.
About half of all Americans take one prescription medication each and every day. Short doctor visits, savvy pill marketing, and habit convince us that every doctor's appointment should end in a ...
Then the trouble compounds once doctors get into daily practice. Primary care physicians only get 15 minutes for each appointment, barely enough time to ask patients what they ate today, much less during all the years leading up to it.