I've been undressed from the waist down for the last hour and 18 minutes! Ahhhh!
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Wow! I could understand in the waiting room but undressed that really sucks! Have you poked your head out to check if they forgot about you?
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That's ridiculous! The longest I've had to wait is 15-20 minutes tops.
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@T.H.O.U.: I got dressed twice to use the bathroom! The nurse just apologized for the wait both times she saw me leave the room.
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Over an hour (part in the lobby and part in the room). It really used to aggrevate me. But then I had my baby... and my doc left other patients waiting in order to come to the hospital and deliver me (it's right across the street from her office). So now I'm much more patient and understanding about waiting if it means someone else is getting to be delivered by their primary doctor. But I would be annoyed if they made me take my pants off knowing I would be waiting for a long time!!!
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An hour and half. I was so pissed since that was after I was weighed and blood pressure checked. So it was a 5 minute appointment, just measure my belly and listened to the heart rate. But I did find out that another doctor was called into delivery so they were having to cover, but they should have told me that before!
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My doctor was always super fast, but at my postpartum appointment I think I was there over an hour waiting in the room. I wouldn't be surprised if he had to deliver a baby...he is pretty awesome, and delivered my baby when he was off call on a holiday weekend at 2 am... so I was forgiving about it.
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I have a minimum hour wait from my actual appointment time, not the time I arrive, so I've waited 2.5 hours before to finally see the dr. I've started showing up either right at my scheduled time or 10 minutes after because I know it's pointless to be on time. My Dr. is totally worth every minute of the wait though so I don't mind it too much and I always prepare myself mentally.
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Oh and my tips for waiting: bring snacks (or a full meal), have plenty of water, use the bathroom frequently since it helps break up the monotony, make sure you have something interesting to read and also if you work put your out of office on so no one is depending on you to do something while it's totally out of your control. I don't even get service in my Dr.'s office so I can't respond to emails on my blackberry. And DH get so hungry he almost passes out every time we go so I always have tons of food for him to eat.
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@Modern Daisy: oh man I used to sit in the lobby stressing about having to pee but being worried if I went I wouldn't have any pee left to give them a sample!! By the time I got to my 3rd tri I was comfortable enough that if I had to go I would just walk right back to my doctor's area and pee back there so I could leave the nurse my sample and then go back to the lobby to continue waiting.
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I've never waited more than like 10 minutes undressed!!!! That's crazy! I've waited about an hour or so in the waiting room though.
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An hour in the waiting room and another 40 minutes undressed in the exam room.
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I had an hour and a 1/2 in the waiting room and they FORGOT they were supposed to give me my drink (glucose test) so it was for nothing. I was not a happy camper as I had left work early.
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4 hours. 2 hours in the waiting room, and 2 hours in the actual appointment room. I finally saw the doctor at 11pm. Yes, that's right. PM. My original appointment time was 2pm!
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@Freckles: wow, was the doctor delivering a baby?
@autumnlove: I hope you were seen by the doctor and you're not still waiting!
I thought waiting almost an hour in the waiting room last week was bad. I have a lot to learn.
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@swedishfish: Yep, he's always doing an emergency c-section which pushes appointments back by 3-5 hours. I am really good at timing it by calling 15 minutes before my new appointment time and getting there 15 minutes afterwards. But because the phone lines close at 4pm, i have to go by the last phone call. I learned that the hard way because at my first prenatal appointment, i waited 4 hours!
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@swedishfish: Yes, I ended up waiting just a little longer! He said lots of patients were running late today!
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10 minutes. Definitely one of the advantages of the midwifery practices in my area, whereas for most OBs around here it's usually a 1-3 hour wait.
If they're attending a birth I get called ahead of time the same day as my appointment and it gets rebooked
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I'm dreading this for my postpartum check up. I've been spoiled by my birth center and my midwife. But, I have to go to the doctor's office who attended my labor for my 6 weeks.
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That's insane!!!! I am so happy to have my midwife. I've never waited more than 5-10 minutes.
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30 mins, I usually schedule my appts in the mornings and I'm usually the first appt of the day so I never had to deal with waiting.
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@mamabear57: I thought I was ok with a 9 am!!! I'm gonna try to schedule my remaining appointnents for 8 am.
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Wow that's so frustrating! I've only been made to wait if the doctor was delivering a baby and even then, the nurses scrambled to try to see us all real quick with one less set of hands! 90+ minutes late would make me so frustrated!!!
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@hergreenapples: Same here!
I can't imagine waiting over an hour in a waiting room let alone sitting there undressed!
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2+ hours. She was covering for the other doctor who was at the hospital delivering a baby. I was soooo furious. But I love her and she was so great during l&d.
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A minute? Didn't know how lucky I was!
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2+ hours for me too...... ugh. I'm so going to a midwife next time. Aroudn here the wait is much less
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@knittylady: Dang! Lucky!!!
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@autumnlove: Yeah I have a midwife as well. That seems to be the common thread in short wait times. I had no idea!
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holy mama. i would have left after half an hour.
i just saw the midwife group at my hospital, and had to wait MAYBE 20 minutes at the longest.
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