Ridiculous Study of the Week – Late Patients
Per usual, I won’t go into detail on this study. That is for you to have fun with here. I just wanted to point these amazing conclusions:
When more patients are punctual, clinics are less likely to run over their allotted time for appointments, researchers found, based on a real-world test and simulations.
Science. You have got to love it.
This is a pain clinic, so probably every visit was predictable. How’s your pain, here’s your meds. I bet somewhere some administrator is going to use this study to claim a primary care clinic that takes care of acute, subacute, and chronic disease and is expected to throw in a little prevention as well should be able to run on a clock and no patients should ever wait, as long as we make them all come on time. After all, a receptionist should be able to figure out what they are coming in with and how long it will take to take care of that, right?
What an interesting concept you have about pain clinics. Would you like to know where you can shove it?