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Old Apr 01, 2012, 12:56 AM
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Originally Posted by KazzaX View Post
All the Gps over here are horrendous. They don't really care about you, as long as you go and fill out the script (ie they get money). Its all well and good to be outraged by it, but in the end (I have found) that you need to just accept it because there is nothing you can do to change it. And example of this is every time I go to a GP in this area, i always have to wait until everyone else that comes in has seen the doctor first (even people who come in after me). This is because I am a different nationality to the people in this suburb. That is the only difference between me and everyone else that lives here (I was born in this country but everyone in this suburb are immigrants from another particular country). That is the only difference between us therefore it must be the answer.

It doesn't help me to raise hell about it. I am not racist so I don't let it affect me personally. If everyone else here is racist then there is also nothing I can do about it. It is the norm. They go in first, I go in last. Even if people come in to see the GP an hour AFTER I have, they get to go in first. So I just accept it. I should consider myself lucky that I even have access to a GP, right? 2 hours minimum in the waiting room at the GPs around here... minimum. Soooo annoying. Then you go in there and the GP doesnt give a crap about anything you have to say.

We have to just accept it and accommodate it because we have no other choice. If I was able to afford any other suburb to live in, I would be out of here like a fart in a blizzard!
Ok that is one of the worst dr stories yet. Have you tried quietly letting the receptionist know that you were there before others they let in? Sounds horrible, but ask with a smile as if you don't know what is really going on? Sometimes if people are called out on their racism, some people actually develop a sense of shame for once, and change their behavior. It may not work but it is worth a shot.