define('DISABLE_WP_CRON', true);{"id":843,"date":"2007-01-03T19:49:15","date_gmt":"2007-01-03T08:49:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sh1ft.org\/blog\/?p=843"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T13:00:00","slug":"the-waiting-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sh1ft.org\/blog\/843\/","title":{"rendered":"the waiting game"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/traceytakesphotos\/343800676\/\" title=\"Photo Sharing\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/152\/343800676_b83e44f5cb_o.jpg\" width=\"405\" height=\"259\" alt=\"waiting\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>if you&#8217;re poor like me, medicare and bulk bill doctors are a godsend. but no one likes to wait 3 hours to see the only female doc in a city general practice. no i&#8217;m not exaggerating, i waited 3 hours to see the doc for 5 minutes. if i had paid $100, i could of had an appointment for 10 minutes set (which i will in future if i can&#8217;t wait around like a bozo), but otherwise i had to schlept it in line. <\/p>\n<p>(i don&#8217;t know why they don&#8217;t put on more doctors, male or female. i wouldn&#8217;t of minded seeing a male doc, it&#8217;s just that i was told to see this particular one. they seriously only had 2 doctors working, at least 10 of the rooms where empty and this is midweek in the <i>middle<\/i> of the city).<\/p>\n<p>after all that, i still have to see another doc whose waiting list is 3 weeks long while i try and get my <a href=\"http:\/\/au.health.yahoo.com\/041101\/25\/1u9v.html\">gastric reflux<\/a> thing underwraps and keep my migraines at bay (ugh). <\/p>\n<p>no one likes a whinger, but sometimes you just gotta. <\/p>\n<p>p.s. i&#8217;m OK, it could be worse. just a little off kilter. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>if you&#8217;re poor like me, medicare and bulk bill doctors are a godsend. but no one likes to wait 3 hours to see the only female doc in a city general practice. no i&#8217;m not exaggerating, i waited 3 hours to see the doc for 5 minutes. if i had paid $100, i could of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anything-everything"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sh1ft.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sh1ft.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sh1ft.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sh1ft.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sh1ft.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sh1ft.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/843\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sh1ft.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sh1ft.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sh1ft.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}