I was scheduled for a 9:30 AM blood draw at oncolo...

I was scheduled for a 9:30 AM blood draw at oncology hematology. I arrived at the waiting room and signed in at 9:21. Within 5 minutes, the room was filled with 10 - 12 patients waiting in the room, with no social distancing. Each seat was spaced 2 to 3 feet apart. This in a hospital setting where the entrance way has feet decals placed every 6 feet but is ignored in a waiting room for oncology patients, those who must have pre-existing conditions.

After waiting over 30 minutes and being concerned about the number of blood draw patients waiting, I left the waiting room at 9:51 and found someone who I told there s 10 people waiting in the waiting room to which she replied I know, we re having a computer problem .

Shortly thereafter, they started calling the patients one by one to get their blood drawn.

The problem is not the long waiting time, rather it s the medical staff s indifference to the value of their time. If someone had come to the waiting room to explain the long wait time, everything would have been fine. But this implied arrogance that a lot of medical staff have towards these high-paying patients is supremely irritating and annoying.

I m just an old grumpy 77 year old former businessman that has never treated his clients as if they were so under-valued. It feels good to vent sometimes.