So strange that he'd take the time to mention privacy laws when he didn't do a lick to respect our…read morefamily's privacy and harassed us even after I told him to disengage and this was not up for discussion. I have a full voicemail I'm happy to publish on here for the world to listen to, since I have nothing to hide.
1) We track our appointments electronically. On the particular day this review was posted, we had 43 appointments. Every day is different, but on this day, the average time these patients waited to be called from the reception area was 5.3 minutes, starting from their appointment time. The longest wait was 23 minutes. These 43 patients had an average appointment duration of 69 minutes, meaning that, on average, they were done a little over one hour after their appointment time.
That's great to cite averages but that's not the case here. As I mentioned - we waited 1.5 hours. But the provider made it a point to say it wasn't a long time and did she really think it was that long - extreme gaslight behavior. Anybody who doesn't think a wait time of 1.5 hours at a Dr.'s office lives in a dystopian world. We have lives and things to do, not wait around for a doctor who doesn't have their scheduling figured out after 20 years in business.
There is a big difference between an appointment that "takes" one hour versus a patient who "waited" for one hour. On average, our appointments take 1-1.5 hours. This is because the appointment involves many components, such as updating the medical history, conducting tests, reviewing surgery instructions, waiting for dilation drops to take effect, and, finally, meeting the doctor. Unfortunately, some patients consider the time they see the doctor as the start of the appointment, discounting all the previous components that our staff had to complete in order for the doctor to perform his/her portion.
My mother has had all these events happen in previous visits. They've never accounted for 1.5 hours. In fact if you want the truth, we were told by the front desk staff once we inquired why the wait was so long - they said it was because they had to have other people go ahead of us because of "emergencies". Not our problem. If you read other reviews, the long wait times are not an uncommon occurrence for this provider.
2) If a patient complains that they have waited long, we check the electronic tracking data to identify the cause of the delay and make improvements for the future. Sometimes, the tracking data reveal that the patient has misjudged or exaggerated the actual time they waited.
My mother did say it was two hours and as I stated in my review - I corrected the provider by telling him it was actually 1.5 hours and that's still a long time to wait for an appointment. Have the decency to admit your deficiency instead of trying to gaslight or lie your way through a review response.
3) As with any business that cares about its clients, if we receive negative feedback about a patient experience, we try to reach out to the patient to address their concerns. If the feedback was made in a public forum (e.g., Yelp/Google) supposedly on their behalf, we obviously need to inform the patient what the feedback stated in order to have that discussion.
Yes you certainly reached out - not to address the patient's concern, but as a point of trying to embarrass my mother. It's clear as day - nobody in their right mind would ever consider your behavior a follow up, and considering it was after hours and around 7:30pm at night, past dinner time at the house. You failed to disengaged when asked politely, to not call here and hang up - at least 20 times. Most people have the intelligence to apologize and leave when asked, not to continue to harass families like this guy.
4) We treat all patients with respect, courtesy, and honesty, and we are fortunate that most patients treat us the same. Many of our patients stay with us long term (often over 15-20 years) and refer their family and friends to our office.
You clearly don't treat all patients with respect, as you demonstrated both in your "in office" behavior and "out of office" behavior. Nice try diddy.
