[buscoquadnary]

Just had baby Dr wanted to do it at 7:00 and the hospital required us to be there at 5:00am. Dr showed up half an hour late.

The reason he scheduled for then was so he could still do office hours. His office closes at noon. Don't like the guy.

[cryoz]

You have to remember that you are not the only patient in the hospital. A Caesarean section requires a lot of setup including OR, anesthesiologist, ensuring adequate care for the newborn, etc. Any of these can cause a delay. Of course there is other cases triaged by urgency like crash sections. It would make no sense to show up to the OR 30 minutes before you can begin operating. An elective Caesarean section will always get bumped for emergencies.

[cjensen]

Hospitals and the medical profession have a lot of work, and for efficiency they stack the work up. A rule of thumb whenever dealing with a hospital is that everything will be massively later than you expect. It's a good idea to set your expectations ahead of time so that a bit of a wait does not take you by surprise. For a hospital procedure, half an hour late is pretty much right on time.

Congrats on the baby!

[devilbunny]

You have to register with the hospital. You have to change into a hospital gown. You have to get an IV and labs (which take an hour to come back). You have to do a nursing intake interview (which is surprisingly long).

I'm an anesthesiologist. My wife needed surgery. And the surgeon is a friend of mine from childhood and needed to leave that afternoon. We had a free OR. Even then, it took 2.5 hrs to get her registered, up to the surgical floor, and to the OR.

So, maybe that doctor is a jerk, but realistically, it takes a while even if you have the inside track on everything.

[s1artibartfast]

What exactly is the complaint?

[aliqot]

File a grievance with a regulatory body.

[buscoquadnary]

The amount of effort to file a grievance against the guy because he was late seems a little extreme. Especially since I haven't slept in 5 days now because of the aforementioned beby.

Although it was incredibly telling when I asked the nurse. "Hey so I know nurses have a list of which Drs. Are a-holes and which ones are good to work with, is our Dr an a-hole?" She responded by saying she couldn't answer that one way or another.

[notch656a]

That's fucking hilarious. I filed a grievance when the medical professionals performed care on me against my (fully conscious and alert) consent, without a warrant, and without a court order nor arrest -- at the direction of a federal officer who had me "detained" but not "arrested" because there was no probable cause of a crime.

I wrote an incredibly detailed, 100 page report with several witnesses painstakingly describing the violation and details and associated license #. Included was my full medical report where licensed doctors clearly noted I had denied consent for care. Included on the report was the signed, official report showing care was rendered without consent.

After what I imagine was about 5 seconds of glancing at my report, a low IQ triage official who worked for the state board claimed anything the medical professionals do are excepted because they magically become police officers, except ones exempt to the 4th amendment, if they do anything wrong. So you can file a grievance, and an idiot from the board will probably tell you to fuck off or invent a fake rule, and there is no appeals process.