Two hour wait to talk to Dr about politics..

[Mytical]

This was going to go in Sick Bay at cs.com but I am a bit too steamed to be polite about it.

I arrived 20 minutes before my doctors appointment...at lets say 10am. At 11 am I was taken from the front waiting room to a exam room to wait. The nurses had me do a urine sample (this was a urology visit mind). At roughly 10 till noon doc comes in. Does a check of the other testicle (the one that hasn't been removed), says 'we have to watch out because there is a 1% chance that one could develop cancer'..then proceeds to talk about how he hopes that when I come in again we have a new president..and how he doesn't like the current one. All in all I spent 10 minutes with the doctor (about) of which 2 was actually about why I was there.

Listen..I don't give a flying monkeys butt about his political stance. Could care less. To wait two hours for what basically was a 2 minute visit isn't even the problem. We were there because I have a medical issue, and I understand bedside manner .. but if you think talking politics is bedside manner you need a cranial adjustment with a cluex4. Why the blue blazes do you discuss politics to a patient? Or religion? NO. JUST NO. GAH!

[Andara Bledin]

Just say no.

It's unprofessional of him, at best, and downright abusive of his position, considering that you don't have much in the way of choice about who you get seen by.

Were I in your position, I would be very strongly tempted to write a nice letter to whoever is responsible for oversight and mention both the extreme wait (over an hour late for an appointment is fairly ridiculous) and the completely inappropriate topic of discussion.

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[HYHYBT]

Inappropriate in your case, but not always. If you knew each other outside of that environment and knew you were basically of the same political stripe, it would just be friendly chit chat.

Trouble is, some people have no sense that real people they meet actually hold different views than they do. It's amazing to watch, and uncomfortable to get stuck in.

[AmbrosiaWriter]

Just say no.

(over an hour late for an appointment is fairly ridiculous)

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Actually at that point it was nearly a TWO hour wait. He got there at 10 AM and the doctor didn't come to talk to him until around 11:50. Then used that time to blast him with his political ideology?

Yeah, I agree with it being really unprofessional. I can see why you'd be pissed about it. I probably would've said something like, "What does your political opinion have to do with my testicle?" (Though I do not have those, so analog speaking: "What does your political opinion have to do with my uterus?" Though shit, that doesn't work either with how much the Republicans are so eager to set up house in there. Damn.)

[Crazedclerkthe2nd]

Just say no.

It's unprofessional of him, at best, and downright abusive of his position, considering that you don't have much in the way of choice about who you get seen by.

Were I in your position, I would be very strongly tempted to write a nice letter to whoever is responsible for oversight and mention both the extreme wait (over an hour late for an appointment is fairly ridiculous) and the completely inappropriate topic of discussion.

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It depends. If it's a hospital, sure. But if this is a private practice, the Doctor himself may be the only oversight that exists.

I'm not sure if you could report him to a medical board for something like this or not, but that's about the only thing I can think of.

The best thing to do (and I know it's not easy) would be to find a different doctor to see.