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[–] Magister@lemmy.world 42 points 8 months ago (1 children)

At one point I setup an appt with a doctor, 3 weeks set date, and to be the first one in the morning, like 9AM, he cannot be late, right? I left at 11:30AM without seeing him.

[–] Kiosade@lemmy.ca 8 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Jeez, how is that even possible? Like did some other asshole sneak in and get seen for some crazy disease somehow?

[–] Magister@lemmy.world 11 points 8 months ago (1 children)

He is a surgeon and was in the hospital nearby, I guess saving life, so it's ok :)

[–] Kiosade@lemmy.ca 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Ahhh that makes much more sense! I thought it was just a regular clinician type of doctor.

[–] Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world 11 points 8 months ago

Those are often the same people. I work exclusively in the OR, and we occasionally need to pull a doctor from their clinical hours to do an emergency surgery, which means some patient who's expecting a clinical appointment just got fucked.

This comes down to staffing issues, but every hospital on the planet is apparently running a skeleton crew right now, so we work with what we got.