until today I was a patient of Dr. Jetter. This review is verbose, I apologize for that, but I hope you read it in its entirety.
I would like to start by saying Dr. Jetter is a wonderful psychiatrist
However, the front office staff really needs improvement.
As a business women who's work life grossly entails stacking my own schedule and being understanding and empathetic when my clients are late and making sure I am incredibly gracious when an emergency occurs and I ask to reschedule a client, this review is coming from experience in this area of the business aspect of a practice and where this office has room to grow and improve.
A month a go I received a phone call approximately an hour before my appointment and I was told Dr. Jetter had an emergency with his car and was not going to be able to see me that day. Then, I was TOLD, not asked, my next appointment would be on a certain day, one moth later, because that was all he had. I felt the phone call was rude and… lacking tact but I graciously understood, having been in this position before and being thankful of my client's graciousness towards me and my clients being understanding of my unfortunate emergencies that sometimes occurs.
So, today, one month later,I called, out of respect for Dr. Jetter's time BEFORE my appointment (having never been late to an appointment with Dr. Jetter before) apologizing for running behind due to unforeseen construction at 50 and North Orange and asked if I should go ahead and reschedule since I might be 10 minutes late. I was told it depends on what time I walk in the door...odd response I've never heard from a doctor's office before but none the less I thanked the lady on the other line and continued on my way.
I arrived at my appointment 11 minutes late. Yes, I was late and I realize that was my fault. However, I was surprised to hear, from Marjorie, when I arrived that she would have to check with the receptionist to see if Dr. Jetter would still see me since I was 11 minutes late. I asked about how long that would take, she told me she didn't know but to have a seat. I said ok, again, this being an odd procedure for a doctor's office.
So, I waited about 20 minutes then voluntarily, not being called, returned to the receptionist window. Marjorie, informed me that Dr. Jeter, was seeing another patient that had arrived on time. I find that odd, since I was only 11 minutes late to my appointment. Did he have a patient stacked 11 minutes after me? At that time I asked Marjorie what was the best way to have my records transferred to another office. I was beginning to explain my frustration, in a very calm manner, and Marjorie decided to look down and began to do something else, couldn't care less that I was speaking to her. This experience was very disheartening and it's unfortunate that my many interactions with Marjorie, the first person your patients interact with when they come in, ended and began with her being quite rude. As a common courtesy, she wouldn't even look at me when I was speaking. It was as if she couldn't be bothered.
This series of events that took place today was so disappointing and disheartening and lacking of common human courtesy from one person to another that I have decided to no longer be a patient of this office.
You may be a doctor's office, but you are also a business with human beings interacting with other human beings. If your front office is rude to the patients you will lose patients just like you lost me. Financially, is your protocol I saw today worth that? Think of all the patients you might be loosing or could loose.
If ANY of my support staff behaved in anyway that the front office staff member Marjorie acted, or the The protocol I experienced today for a patient that calls before their appointment is to begin, out of respect for the doctor's time, asking if they should reschedule and being put through the process I was put through today after arriving to your office there would be training on patient interaction and protocols would be changed. There are people out there that want to be respectful of others time if they are running late that respect should be mutual. Your protocol for patients attempting to do just that, be respectful of the Doctor's time if they're running late, is not respectful of the patent's time.
In summation,
Yes, I was 11 minutes late to my appointment, which I called BEFORE my appointment was to begin and asked if I should reschedule. I should have been told "yes" at that point and the interactions with Marjorie should have been much different from the moment I first interacted with her after arriving.
You lost a patient today.
Again, Dr. Jetter is a wonderful psychiatrist but the frustrating and rude interactions (on multiple occasions) with your front office staff is not worth me coming back. I wish I had just been told over the phone to please reschedule since I was going to be late, instead of going through the protocol that seems to be in place for your front office. I respect the doctor's time but it seems the respect for patient's is not mutual.
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