@HoustonRunner said in Top annoyance:
My PCP is really good if I book early morning appointments, so I always do that well in advance.
I figure it's like booking an airline seat — the later in the day you go, the more any delays in the morning will stack up.
I am fairly understanding about doctors' running late. They don't know for sure what patients are going to need or how long it will take until they see 'em, and if somebody ahead of me on the schedule turns out not to be routine and straightforward and predicable, everything else has to slip.
They could approach that by padding their schedules more or (assuming it's even possible) adding personnel, but that isn't going to help with healthcare costs any.
I personally have never gotten the impression that it's because of either a lackadaisical attitude or some kind of flex — just the uncertainties of taking care of the people upstream from me, combined with a general context of too many sick people and too few practitioners.