MedWorm provides a medical RSS filtering service. Over 6000 RSS medical sources are combined and output via different filters. This feed contains the latest medical blog items that have been tagged with 'average doctor office wait times'. Sun, 11 Oct 2009 21:30:10 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2458184&cid=t_244656_111_f&fid=36048&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.b5media.com%2F%7Er%2Fb5media%2FAHeartyLife%2F%7E3%2FLT5O-HCiI9A%2F Doctors seem to be notorious for making people wait, and a new survey confirms what we already suspected: we’re being kept waiting a lot longer. Merritt Hawkins, which is a consulting firm that specializes in health care, surveyed over 1,100 doctor’s offices on the length of time people wait to get an appointment. I always thought it was just the specialists that were hard to get into, but now I’ve noticed it with my regular physician as well. The survey “measured average appointment wait times in family practices as well as four specialties: cardiology, dermatology, obstetrics/gynecology and orthopedic surgery.” They found that the average wait time HAS INCREASED by 8.6 days per city. So if it took you a week to see your doctor, chances are now it’s cl... A Hearty Life blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2458184 Sun, 07 Jun 2009 11:51:44 +0100 2458184