• pixxelkick@lemmy.world
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    5 days ago

    I will say, in my city, our family doctor is in office at least 4 days a week.

    If you dont have a scheduled slot, you can see another in the same clinic tho, but usually you wanna schedule if possible.

    If you give them a few hours heads up before leaving, you can usually be in and out in lile an hour total which is fine imo for non-energency.

    For emergencies you are not spending any time in the waiting room yeah, they are pretty good at fixing you up fast.

    If you just go to a hospital 15 minutes out of town at a smaller city, non emergency wait times plummet tremendously.

    We have like 3 hospital options where I live, to go to, that are an extra 15min drive but 1/10th the wait times for non-emergency.

    Politicians love to pick the one hospital dead center of the city that is the busiest one and cherry pick its busiest time of year as average wait times.

    In reality its the exception and most other hospitals are faster, and 1 city out from the major one and hospital wait times are negligible.