Comments on: http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2005/09/lawyers-in-australia-wants-to-sue.html Tue, 14 Feb 2012 19:56:00 +0000 hourly 1 By: Anonymoushttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2005/09/lawyers-in-australia-wants-to-sue.html#comment-55290 Anonymous Fri, 16 Sep 2005 20:11:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2005/09/18889.html#comment-55290 If you can't find another oncologist then the one you have must be very busy. Would you then like him to cut off new patients? Sure, a call would be nice but who can predict hour to hour how many no shows there will be or how many people are unexpectantly found to be febrile and neutropenic with posssible superior ven cava syndrome. If you can’t find another oncologist then the one you have must be very busy. Would you then like him to cut off new patients? Sure, a call would be nice but who can predict hour to hour how many no shows there will be or how many people are unexpectantly found to be febrile and neutropenic with posssible superior ven cava syndrome.

]]> By: Caryhttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2005/09/lawyers-in-australia-wants-to-sue.html#comment-55285 Cary Fri, 16 Sep 2005 18:49:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2005/09/18889.html#comment-55285 Wow...interesting comments.<br/><br/>My wife is 29-years-old and has been fighting stage IV Unknown Primary cancer for the last three years. Her Oncologist often has her waiting over an hour for her appointment, and the Oncology Infusion Suite where she recevies chemo is often up to a few hours behind schedule.<br/><br/>A single call to let us know that the doctor is running late would allow my wife to get more real living out of the time she has left, instead of sitting in a depressing waiting room every freakin' week.<br/><br/>It may well be that the healthy people are the ones complaining because they are the only ones who still have the energy.<br/><br/>The idea that one can just walk out and find another doctor is a joke, and IMHO the person who wrote it isn't living in the real world.<br/><br/>Just my 2 cents. Wow…interesting comments.

My wife is 29-years-old and has been fighting stage IV Unknown Primary cancer for the last three years. Her Oncologist often has her waiting over an hour for her appointment, and the Oncology Infusion Suite where she recevies chemo is often up to a few hours behind schedule.

A single call to let us know that the doctor is running late would allow my wife to get more real living out of the time she has left, instead of sitting in a depressing waiting room every freakin’ week.

It may well be that the healthy people are the ones complaining because they are the only ones who still have the energy.

The idea that one can just walk out and find another doctor is a joke, and IMHO the person who wrote it isn’t living in the real world.

Just my 2 cents.

]]> By: Anonymoushttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2005/09/lawyers-in-australia-wants-to-sue.html#comment-55279 Anonymous Fri, 16 Sep 2005 13:16:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2005/09/18889.html#comment-55279 People are cattle. They don't get it. I've seen a patient undergoing CPR and another patient complaining "I wish somebody would pay that much attention to me". HIPPA laws prohibit telling them that that particular patient isn't breathing and so she got moved up in the queue.<br/><br/>The trend in my town is to guarantee quick attention at the ER or you win a prize. A suburban hospital came up with a 30 minute guarantee, so the urban medical center beat them with a 29 minute promise. Luckily, I work at the one that still has wait times in the 5-6 hour range for people who should be taking this to their PCP. People are cattle. They don’t get it. I’ve seen a patient undergoing CPR and another patient complaining “I wish somebody would pay that much attention to me”. HIPPA laws prohibit telling them that that particular patient isn’t breathing and so she got moved up in the queue.

The trend in my town is to guarantee quick attention at the ER or you win a prize. A suburban hospital came up with a 30 minute guarantee, so the urban medical center beat them with a 29 minute promise. Luckily, I work at the one that still has wait times in the 5-6 hour range for people who should be taking this to their PCP.

]]> By: Anonymoushttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2005/09/lawyers-in-australia-wants-to-sue.html#comment-55276 Anonymous Fri, 16 Sep 2005 00:53:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2005/09/18889.html#comment-55276 ERs need to post where all can see "You will not necessarily be seen in the order that you arrived; be prepared to wait". People who go to ERs with non-emergent problems deserve to wait, sorry to say. They should also be required to pay more. ERs need to post where all can see “You will not necessarily be seen in the order that you arrived; be prepared to wait”. People who go to ERs with non-emergent problems deserve to wait, sorry to say. They should also be required to pay more.

]]> By: ibear M.D.http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2005/09/lawyers-in-australia-wants-to-sue.html#comment-55264 ibear M.D. Thu, 15 Sep 2005 16:59:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2005/09/18889.html#comment-55264 What gets me is people who come to the ER and complain that they have had to wait for 2 hours to get examined; usually for a sore throat or a cough that started 6 weeks ago. They don't understand that ER is a triage system that takes the most serious conditions first. When I explain this to them I usually get something like "well I'm a patient too" What gets me is people who come to the ER and complain that they have had to wait for 2 hours to get examined; usually for a sore throat or a cough that started 6 weeks ago. They don’t understand that ER is a triage system that takes the most serious conditions first. When I explain this to them I usually get something like “well I’m a patient too”

]]> By: Anonymoushttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2005/09/lawyers-in-australia-wants-to-sue.html#comment-55261 Anonymous Thu, 15 Sep 2005 15:41:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2005/09/18889.html#comment-55261 The lawers march in where the marketplace should rule.<br/><br/>Patients need merely vote with their feet. Don't like the service you get from your physician, then check around, try another one and have your records forwarded. <br/><br/>If you like your doctor and are reluctant to change then, however much you gripe about the wait, it is evident from your inaction that the wait is worth sticking with the chronically late physician. <br/><br/>If your waiter is late with your dinner you vote with the tip; would anyone consider suing a waiter and restauraunt for slow service? Sadly, some would answer yes here, but any reasonable person would just scratch that food provider from their list and move on. The same can and should be done in medicine. Don't like your doc's service, then just move on. The lawers march in where the marketplace should rule.

Patients need merely vote with their feet. Don’t like the service you get from your physician, then check around, try another one and have your records forwarded.

If you like your doctor and are reluctant to change then, however much you gripe about the wait, it is evident from your inaction that the wait is worth sticking with the chronically late physician.

If your waiter is late with your dinner you vote with the tip; would anyone consider suing a waiter and restauraunt for slow service? Sadly, some would answer yes here, but any reasonable person would just scratch that food provider from their list and move on. The same can and should be done in medicine. Don’t like your doc’s service, then just move on.

]]> By: Anonymoushttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2005/09/lawyers-in-australia-wants-to-sue.html#comment-55256 Anonymous Thu, 15 Sep 2005 15:10:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2005/09/18889.html#comment-55256 <i>those patients with the healthiest history seem to be the ones that complain the loudest about having been kept waiting.</i><br/>Strangely, I've been pretty healthy and I don't complain (except for in the pelvic ultrasound case as I mentioned above. I just bring some interesting book with me. One thought: maybe if the waiting room had better reading selections people would be happier. My pet peave: ObGyn office with baby magazines all over the place and no other reading and nothing else so those of us who are infertile can look and weep. Is it too much to ask for some sensitivity? I don't say that it is wrong to have some 'family' magazines, but give some choice. those patients with the healthiest history seem to be the ones that complain the loudest about having been kept waiting.
Strangely, I’ve been pretty healthy and I don’t complain (except for in the pelvic ultrasound case as I mentioned above. I just bring some interesting book with me. One thought: maybe if the waiting room had better reading selections people would be happier. My pet peave: ObGyn office with baby magazines all over the place and no other reading and nothing else so those of us who are infertile can look and weep. Is it too much to ask for some sensitivity? I don’t say that it is wrong to have some ‘family’ magazines, but give some choice.

]]> By: Anonymoushttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2005/09/lawyers-in-australia-wants-to-sue.html#comment-55255 Anonymous Thu, 15 Sep 2005 14:42:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2005/09/18889.html#comment-55255 Sheesh. The reason people have to wait, it due to the people who came before them were: Late, scheduled for one problem and brought up another problem at the end of the appointment, brought two kids to one appointment and wanted them both treated, brought a spouse etc. Its not the doctors, its the patients who make schedules run late. Sheesh. The reason people have to wait, it due to the people who came before them were: Late, scheduled for one problem and brought up another problem at the end of the appointment, brought two kids to one appointment and wanted them both treated, brought a spouse etc. Its not the doctors, its the patients who make schedules run late.

]]> By: Anonymoushttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2005/09/lawyers-in-australia-wants-to-sue.html#comment-55254 Anonymous Thu, 15 Sep 2005 12:25:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2005/09/18889.html#comment-55254 "I though it hadn't been proven that defensive medicine exists or costs anything?"<br/><br/>Well that is definitely true since both of our board's top experts, Dr. Elliot and Einstein/CJD have proclaimed as much. Defensive medicine therefore does not exist. “I though it hadn’t been proven that defensive medicine exists or costs anything?”

Well that is definitely true since both of our board’s top experts, Dr. Elliot and Einstein/CJD have proclaimed as much. Defensive medicine therefore does not exist.

]]> By: Anonymoushttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2005/09/lawyers-in-australia-wants-to-sue.html#comment-55252 Anonymous Thu, 15 Sep 2005 02:52:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2005/09/18889.html#comment-55252 <i>Yes, especially since he knows why you are ordering it (wink, wink, nudge, nudge).</i><br/><br/>I though it hadn't been proven that defensive medicine exists or costs anything? Yes, especially since he knows why you are ordering it (wink, wink, nudge, nudge).

I though it hadn’t been proven that defensive medicine exists or costs anything?

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