A Doctor Visit

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When you set up an appointment at a doctor's office, do you expect certain behaviors and interactions from the doctor's office staff? Do you expect them to be on time as you were? Of course you do, anyone should. However, do you actually get that V.I.P. treatment? That treatment should not be V.I.P. only. If you are expected to show up 15 minutes before your 'scheduled' appointment, do you not feel that the doctor's should do the same? I do. I feel there should be some form of positive and hospitable bed side manner given to each and every patient. I do not know how every doctor's visit in every doctor's office is handled; I do however know how my own personal experiences with doctor's office visits have been handled. With that in mind I feel there are changes that should be made, then again, that is simply my own opinion and I know that there are things that are out of people’s control. This is how many of my own doctor's office visits have been handled. The first thing you do when you have a doctors appointment is you prepare to be to the office at least 15 minutes earlier than your scheduled appointment as requested by the doctor's office so that you can fill out the paper work. When you get to the doctors office you sign in at the front desk with the receptionist, she gives you all the necessary paper work you will need to fill out for this specific visit. After you fill out all the paper work needed and hand it back to the receptionist, you can then sit down in the waiting room. There are a stack of month old magazines on a small square table that also has a plastic vase with dusty, cob web covered fabricated flowers. You pick up the top magazine and start to skim through the pages not really interested in the articles. As you start staring at the clock thinking about all the other things that you need to get done today, you start to get a little
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