European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 15, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse Is monday february 15, 1993 m doctors schedules subject to crises dear Ann Landers in a recent column you asked physicians to respond to patients who complain about having to wait Cleiv though they have an appointment. I would like to reply. 1. Emergencies always take priority and cannot be scheduled. 2. Many patients have an extra problem to discuss some thing that just came 3. Patients phone and insist that the doctor Call them Back immediately. 4. Hospital patients who arc critical need to be seen at once. 5. The real culprit is the patient who comes in late and throws the entire schedule off. After Reading your column Ann i went Over my records for one full month to see if i could detect a pattern. Sure enough one out of three new patients arrived an average of 17 minutes late after having been instructed to come in 15 minutes fill out forms. While i m at it i want to thank the two thirds of my patients who always show up on time. Jonathan Baldwin m.d., Bowling Green by dear or. A the responses from doctors who wrote to acquit Ann Landers themselves was predictable but the volume was Stag paring. Mercifully most of the letters were typewritten. Read on from Sheboygan wis i am a primary care physician who always runs late. Why because every other patient has at least two additional complaints he or she wants to talk about and i must listen. In my opinion listening is the most important part of the doctor patient relationship and listening takes time. Tulsa okla having trained at Cook county Hospital in Chicago Charity Hospital in new Orleans and Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore where the doctors often saw More than Lochra tints a morning 1 am Quick efficient and accurate. I get to my office ahead of time and hire secretaries and nurses who Are courteous and patient Brick cd. I am proud to be a doctor and do what i can to keep the professional standards High. Dorchester mass i know what it is to wait because i have been a patient As Well As a doctor but i Don t mind waiting because i know that when my turn comes i will get As much time As i need. I m pleading for understanding Ann. Tell your read ers it s of to hate waiting just Don t hate the doctor the nurse or the receptionist. If you Don t get the kind of attention you want by All Means find another doctor who suits your needs but i m warning you you will probably have to wait for him or her too. Letters to Ann Landers should to addressed to Hor at . Dox 11562, Chi Cago Iii. 60611-0562. C creators Syndicate puzzled by a Pelvic area Puritan dear Abby a i nearly choked on my breakfast when i read the let Ter from a Louisiana woman a lip thinks it s immoral for medical personnel to treat the private parts of patients of the opposite sex. If As she claims it is immoral then All those people who have chosen to be doctors nurses and medical technicians Are immoral and should Burn in hell for having healed All those sick people. Right to put it another Way if a Man had a serious Accident and his injuries were Between his Navel and his Knees and a medically trained woman was the first to arrive at the scene she should just walk away and let him die or let us say that if your writer was the Accident victim and her injuries were in the Pel Vic Region and there was no female medical practitioner available would she choose death in order to uphold her moral standards i have never read anything As ludicrous As that Wom an s letter. I Hope before she passes away she will leave instructions with her loved ones to find an Alj of Smalc mortuary to handle her remains. Shocked in Reno dear Abby dear shocked if you had sat in my chair since 1956, you Loo would be Shockproof. I am. Dear Abby the column you wrote about the importance of writ ing letters stirred up memories of All those lonely Days and nights my husband and i were separated during world War ii. I m glad you emphasized the importance of writing letters to each other every Day. It not Only helped to keep us out of trouble it also paid off with a Bonus More precious than you can imagine because when we finally met again after a Long separation both of us were More at Case because of our daily communication. It was hard for me to. Understand Why so Many families had serious problems communicating when their men came Home. Then it dawned on me what the Dif Ference was there had been very Little communication during the Soldier s Lone absence. Maybe just a few Hur ried postcards with a few sentences love you. Miss you. Kiss the kids from him and from her longer letters filled with All the problems sacrifices hard times and loneliness she was feeling. 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