Apr 7 2006
Waiting
I went to see my doctor this morning. Because he was fully booked until May I couldn’t make a regular appointment but went into the walk-in clinic. I anticipated a long wait, but the waiting room was empty and I was the first and only one.
I actually had to wait shorter then when I have regular appointments!
He send me to a rheumatologist who’ll give me a cortisone injection and also to an orthopaedic surgeon who will decide if I need an operation to repair my partly torn tendon. But orthopaedic surgeons are busy folk so I’ve an appointment end of June. That’s not too bad actually as my doctor’s assistant told me the waiting would be around 4 months.
Friday, 7 April, 2006 @ 11:40
Oh, Mark! What long legs you have!
Friday, 7 April, 2006 @ 16:56
i had never seen an empty waiting room before. i am in awe.
Friday, 7 April, 2006 @ 17:24
Ask him what time he got there.
Saturday, 8 April, 2006 @ 00:39
Wow… What is that clinic, I have to go there! No waiting ! At my doctor’s, I usually have to wait for up to two hours…
Saturday, 8 April, 2006 @ 01:43
My GP works at the St. Catherine Medical Group on… Sherbrooke Street. (In Westmount, number 5025, suite 660).
Walk-in every weekday from 8-10 am. I was there this morning at 8:05 and the second patient arrived at 8:25, just before the doctor saw me.
Sunday, 9 April, 2006 @ 12:15
Please be carefull on the injection! Because recovery seems to go fast, it’s likely you’ll be doing all sorts of stuff that you still shouldn’t be doing and in the process making things worse, instead of better. Ask the physiotherapist, they know about these things.
Monday, 10 April, 2006 @ 18:42
Hi Mark,
I hope that things get better soon, and that the treatment is not too horrible. Best of luck!
Tuesday, 11 April, 2006 @ 04:24
So what was the doctor doing from 8.00 till 8.26? Checking his mail? ;-)
Anyway, I hope it helps.
Tuesday, 11 April, 2006 @ 08:34
@nans: yes I’ll take care not to do too much. I got my cortisone shot yesterday and so far not much change.
@Enna: The doctor starts seeing patients from 8:30, but the waiting list starts at 8.
@everybody: thanks for all the good wishes.
Sunday, 19 April, 2009 @ 21:22
Loglog can be super handy.
See, 3 years and a few days after I wrote this post I need to see a doctor quickly again. (Actually we, since we both are having one cold after the other for more than two months now; we seem to infect each other) I couldn’t remember when the walk-in clinic started, tried to find it by phone and on the internets but was unable to find it. But then I remembered I posted about it, so I searched for “Doctor” and found this post. But unfortunately I didn’t mention the time…
Thankfully Alison, who is clairvoyant and knew we would need it in a few years, asked in the comments above at what time I got there. And I replied and just read it back and now I remember again and we’ll be there at 8 AM.
I hope I have a voice left to talk to the doctor, because now I can only wisper and even that with difficulty. But yesterday’s fever (39.1 °C) is a bit less today, so maybe I’m getting better. But if you hear me cough you’d think I might die any minute now.
(In the unlikely event I do, here are my last words: I died like a dog, with one big bark.)