Appointment Systems
There is an urgent need to have standardisation in health and hospital services.
Many doctors in top private hospitals give appointments but rarely honour them. People wait for several hours at times despite taking prior appointment.
Simple ask is : honour appointment time and make non appointment patients wait. more
Many doctors in top private hospitals give appointments but rarely honour them. People wait for several hours at times despite taking prior appointment.
Simple ask is : honour appointment time and make non appointment patients wait. more
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Very bad tendency of both patients and doctors. Greediness to make more money through appointments might be major contributing factor. more
Oct 10
Honouring appointments by doctors in time has been in a mess inIndia.The reason is the booking of a reasonable time to be spent on each patient.The management of the facility for out patients must space the doctors time according to his working schedule .Example in one hour he can schedule six patients allotting ten minutes for each which is a reasonable period ,but adjustments can be made.But many appointments are not honoured as the doctor attends a call elsewhere and inverts his time to some personal issue. One must not be disturbed from OPD and only limited slots of appointments possible should be given.In west they cancel patients appointments if he does not show up and he is not adjusted if he comes late. The importance of patients time after given appointment must be honoured. more
Oct 10
It has been observed that Doctors give more appointments in a particular period then it can be really handled with the result patients have to wait for very long period may be even an hour. more
Oct 07
Appointment times are never honoured in any hospital that I have visited in 68 years of my life with sole exception of certain Doctors with a limit on patient's number like Dr. (Late) Dhairyasheel B. Shirole, Child Specialist in 70s in Pune(only 30 patients in the morning & 30 in the evening). But there are severe constraints on them too, which should be considered. One, there is no way they can refuse an emergency patient. Second, the actual time of consultation exceeds the estimated time. But what is regrettable is that the Doctors in general categorise their patient's based on their occupations (Prefer Politician over a bureacrat, a District Collector over another lower level executive etc.) , on language (a patient with the same tongue or similar tongue is preferred to others and last but not the least based on caste. They willy nilly encourage queue jumping and any one who points it out becomes permanent outcast for that hospital/ Doctor. This is rampant among Doctors belonging to politically strong castes. But like all other ills with which we are living even this needs to be tolerated. more
Oct 04
