New, improved medical care. So I go to my bi-an checkup. This time the office has three empty staff chairs. [View all]

The nurse who used to do the prelim weigh-in and shit, she's gone. The appointment was for 9:30. I get there at 9:27. The weigh-in and ekg is completed at 9:50 (or so).

"Dr. L will be with you shortly.

10:30, he still hasn't showed up. I walk out into the hall and he is in his room, talking with another physician.

"What's going on? My appointment was for 9:30?"

Him: "I have you down for 10:00."

I show him the appointment card that says 9:30.

"We're busy."

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Last September, same medical group, different building, different physician-specialty. I'm finished with the check-up, waiting for printout of prescriptions....

40 minutes passes when someone notices the light is on in the exam room and they are closing for the day.

"Oh, Dr. must have forgot you were still here.

Small practices are being bought out and consolidated into medical factories.

Fuck the patient. It's about the bottom line.