DR Jeanne - today I also had a bad experience with timing in a medical office. My appointment this morning was for 8:30 and I was to fast for blood work (including no coffee). It wouldn't have been too bad, even with my severe caffeine addiction, if they'd seen me quickly and sent on my way. But, no-o-o-o, I waited more than 30 minutes to be called, another 15 or so for the doctor, and another 15 or so for the nurse to come back to take blood and to set up my referral for the ultrasound. By this time, I'd been up for almost 4 hours was nearly ready to pass out, so came home for coffee and breakfast before proceeding to the imaging place. When I didn't show up there immediately, the imaging place called the doctor's office who called me to find out where I was. The person who called from the doctor's office just happens to be the doctor's wife and she said, "Well, now you'll have to wait when you get there." And now, they haven't bothered to call me with the results of the ultrasound. And I still have a residual caffeine-deprivation headache.
