[campbellcj]

Welcome to the world of insurance-run health care. Generally speaking, if you don't like waiting or being rushed in and out of the exam room with barely a chance to open your mouth and ask a question, find a cash practice and bend over.

My wife was repeatedly "threatened" with reprimand or possibly even termination by her former employer -- a gargantuan HMO & hospital mgmt. corp. -- if she spent more than "X" minutes with each patient on average, made patients wait more than "Y" minutes, or did not see at least "Z" patients per hour. Yet, paradoxically, any patient could complain about X, Y, or Z and she would be nailed anyway.