I've had bad doctors who have made me wait for up to an hour and a half and I now have a great doctor that may make me wait 10 or 15 minutes.....
In fact, my last two doctor's visits were to specialty docs and with neither one of them did I have to wait more than 10 minutes.....Maybe I was just lucky, I don't know.
About 16 years ago my daughter’s obstetrician made her wait on a table, in a cold exam room for over 2 hours, with a raging breast infection while a lab across town returned results of a blood test. He never came to see her. It was the nurse who put her in that condition. This office was attached to the hospital where she’d had a C section earlier in the week.
I was there and put cold compresses on her head because she was running a fever. She was shivering, and I brought a blanket and a pillow from my car. Finally the nurse said she could get dressed and pick up a prescription from a pharmacy across town.
When she called the next day to complain about her treatment, the doctor said that he never intended to come to the office at all that day, and that her wait was caused by her “lousy insurance coverage” which would not allow her to be seen in the hospital. Needless to say, she hired a different doctor for the next baby. This was in Richmond, VA, and the first doctor was supposed to be one one of the best in town.