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  • Doctors waiting rooms are not for the sick....!

    Went to the Doc Friday as I'd had nearly 2 weeks of cold and then sore throat.

    I purposely sat as far away from everyone else as I could. As you can imagine I was wheezing and coughing a bit but tried to keep it as quiet as possible.

    Not good enough for one older man. He went to reception to ask something and I'm glad I didn't overhear him then. He saw the same Doctor I did and she said that he'd actually complained there were sick people in the waiting room and how terribly bad that was....

    (Btw - chest, sinus and throat infection. All bad enough that I'm under orders to stay in doors... )
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    My pediatrician back in the dark ages [the 1960s] had 2 waiting rooms, one for sick kids, and one for kids there for routine stuff like shots or exams. I always thought that was pretty good.
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    • #3
      Mine did as well, and my sons' does even in this modern era. Makes wonderful sense, I suppose they think adults can fend for themselves among the germs.
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      • #4
        Sick people at a doctor's office? How horrible! Maybe I should complain to my manager about all the sick people I have to take care of on the nursing unit...

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        • #5
          That separation of sick/well for kids though is more like to do with the fact that kids cannot keep their hands out of their mouths for any length of time (my opinion). Adults should know better. I wonder what the percentage of airborne vs personal contact viruses there are in the world.
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          • #6
            Quoth PuckLizardRN View Post
            Sick people at a doctor's office? How horrible! Maybe I should complain to my manager about all the sick people I have to take care of on the nursing unit...
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            • #7
              Quoth AccountingDrone View Post
              My pediatrician back in the dark ages [the 1960s] had 2 waiting rooms, one for sick kids, and one for kids there for routine stuff like shots or exams. I always thought that was pretty good.
              That's a great idea . . . kids spread germs among each other like a modern day plague . . . literally. They touch common toys, and the little ones put them in their mouths.

              Adults know to cover their mouths or should. And unless they're there with their kids, they're not touching the toys.
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              • #8
                My doctor's office has signs up (in multiple languages) asking people to inform reception if they have any of a given set of symptoms. I presume this is to allow the receptionists to direct patients to a separate waiting room if they're likely to be OMG-contagious.

                They also have handwashing stations all over the place. The building was constructed as a medical complex, and they didn't have to try to retrofit in any plumbing.
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                • #9
                  I wasn't aware dual waiting rooms at pediatricians was uncommon. Back in Phoenix i used to deliver a family/kids free magazine and there were a number of peditrician's offices on the delivery list, and most of them had separate waiting rooms. Heck, IIRC there was a kid's dentist office that had two waiting rooms.
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                  • #10
                    Quoth Seshat View Post
                    My doctor's office has signs up (in multiple languages) asking people to inform reception if they have any of a given set of symptoms. I presume this is to allow the receptionists to direct patients to a separate waiting room if they're likely to be OMG-contagious.

                    They also have handwashing stations all over the place. The building was constructed as a medical complex, and they didn't have to try to retrofit in any plumbing.
                    My former GP's clinic had the exact same thing. When I told them last time, I was directed to three chairs set between two doctor's offices but far enough away that I wasn't coming into direct contact with somebody.

                    Turns out that they DO have special isolated rooms for those patients.
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                    • #11
                      Where I live, if you cough or if you know that you are sick, you get a mask to put on your face while in the waiting area, and that's it.
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