Your appointment is only 10 minutes long...

Not taking shots at you because you're just telling the truth about the state of health care right now. I pay for insurance and for co-pays and I still need to hand over what amounts to bribe money to get decent care.

Well like mom always said: While some things change, others remain the same.

Yep this is the way of the world now as it always has been. Money talks and we all know the rest.

Guess I need to pull a few OT shifts and pay up for the extra attention; $1600 isn't that bad. Everyone else who can't afford can kick rocks I guess?

That is interesting, I didn't know anyone else has had that problem. Up until recently all my personal experiences with NPs have been wonderful, when I went in with one chief complaint. I was also quite upset when the same thing you report happened with my 85 year old mom. I actually went there twice with my mom just to make sure I wasn't imagining things, she was given the "bums rush". I don't think those quick clinics are set up for people with multiple problems. I won't go into details about why but for a three month period my mom did not have an attending. Unfortunately she did not stop being elderly and frail and needed checked. By now I have her switched to another doctor and things are going swimmingly. By the way, her insurance company actually pays more for a first visit because they know it will take more time, this new doc spent nearly an hour with her getting to know her. The next couple of visits went very smooth because we had that long first assessment.

If a patient comes in and takes more than 10 minutes, and it is a trend that is happening in the doctors office. Maybe they should look into changing there policy instead of trying to be money greedy. Isn't that what you pay for? This absolutely frustrates me, this is not how it should be. The doctors or NP should be caring instead of trying to just take the money from people that don't have it. Who cares if they have a list, that is what THEY are paying for.
And for someone trying to make everyone think that is ok for a doctor or NP to say that that there time was up., shame on you!

I just want to say that I LOVE my doc, absolutely love him.



I have many health problems, and I see my internist 4-5 times a year to ensure that I am not 'bogging' him down with crap.

That NP, should be ashmed of herself. Any practice that gives you the bums rush, should get one too. My Drs. office has no such policy, and if they did, I would switch. And, when I go to the Doctor, I see a Doctor. No NP's for me, not interested at all.