DaasYochid,
I’m glad they have the time to do that instead of treating patients. My pediatrician doesn’t. Maybe he does waste his time on this nonsense anyhow, at the expense of my kids or other patients; I don’t know.
Or maybe your pediatrician is over-scheduling patients to the point of shortchanging them. Nobody wants to be the one waiting for over an hour past the appointment time in the biologically hazardous waiting room, but if a practice is not budgeting at minimum 10 to 15 minutes of Q&A for each patient, then they are not doing their jobs well. Or, at the very least, they can say, “this is an extremely important issue that we should discuss further. Unfortunately, we are overbooked today, so I cannot take the time needed to thoroughly respond to all of your questions in a way that I think would be most helpful. Let’s schedule a consult in a week or two…” Patient leaves happy, doc gets two fees from one patient.