Re: how long do you wait at your ped's office?

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Posted by Teri

the boredom isn't the most annoying for us, it's being around all the sick kids for so long that really kills me

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If we're on time, anywhere from 5-15 mins. The wait inside the waiting room (especially if we're getting shots) can take significantly longer.

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I never wait for more than 10 min in the waiting room, but I have waited for the Dr in the exam room for as much as 45 minutes.

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Posted by jacquig

In the waiting room 30-40 minutes Once we are in the room there is not wait.

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I never wait!

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I always make the first appointment with the doctor. That way I hardly wait.

However, I have called in the morning to get in later that day for a sick visit once or twice, and we've had to wait an hour each time

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i have been waiting a long time. yesterday I went to the dr for my DD and i waited 45 mins in waiting room and then was seen my the dr quickly.

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Almost never a wait in "waiting room", and about 5 minutes or so in the exam room. (Which gives DC more than enough time to touch EVERYTHING in the room..... )

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We've only been a couple times, but we go right in when we arrive. DS is an infant though, and she schedules them before her other patients arrive to avoid exposing him to germs.

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Not long at all...5-10 minutes tops

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5-15 minutes and my Doc has a completely seperate sick and well side. In fact it is a seperate entrance from outside. There is no contact with the other side.

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5 minutes tops

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My ped. is the only one in the practice and I've never waited more than 5 minutes.

Edited to say that my dr. has no separate areas for sick and well patients, but if there is anyone sick in the waiting room, they bring me right in to an exam room.

Message edited 12/28/2007 8:05:10 PM.

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For a well visit I usually get called into the room with it 10mins but then I usually wait another 10-15mins in the room before the dr comes in. And for a sick visit the longest I had to wait was 45mins, but usually it's really not that bad.

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No more than 5 minutes.

Although my ped is part of a practice of 4 pediatricians, he has a separate/private office with his own staff. Even when I've had to go to the main ped office, DD was seen immediately.

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my group does have a separate sick and well area, but it's all one large room really and even if my dc is sick, I'd prefer to not have her wait in a room with potentially WORSE sick kids for upwards of an hour

oh - and this group just takes on too many patients....I've waited this long at 9:30 am as well.

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Wow I am shocked by the answers, I have been waiting to long, I waited about 20-30 mins each time, and a couple of times when my DS was sick on a weekend, I have waited up to an hour and a half.. Love the Dr through, I guess this is what you have to do when you trust someone.

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I've never waited more than 10 minutes. Most of the time, I walk right in.

We have a separate area for well & sick - but I don't think I've ever seen anyone using it as there are few people waiting.

Message edited 12/28/2007 9:20:45 PM.

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With DD's first Dr. at her 1st apt with him I waited 2 and a half hours! I was furious!! So I thought maybe it was a busy day....nope next apt I waited an hour.

So now DD is with the pediatrician I had as a child and we haven't waited more than 15 mins to be seen

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Totally depends on whether he's running behind. Typically 10 minutes or so, but today it was alot longer - I was also the last appt.

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There is no separate room...most times we go right in and wait in the room about 10 minutes-ish...sometimes it's a 5-10 minute wait...

Bella was sick the day after thanksgiving (as was every other kid in the practice)

we waited 20 minutes out in the waiting room...I was just glad that they squeezed us in (we called at 10 and got an appointment for 11:45)
I LOVE MY PRACTICE!

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I use the same practice as KathyB. The wait is horrible. I have been there 1 1/2 hours ,