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Originally Posted by stopdog
I really do not believe it is a client's problem to worry about whether there are other people out there "more deserving" of paying for a provider's time or more in need of it or whatever. I do not view a therapist as "squeezing me in" - the woman has an appointment or she does not it. If she says she does, then I am as deserving as anyone else of buying that from her.
I also don't think of them as all that super special to think they are doing me a favor by allowing me to come to an appointment.
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I said nothing about anyone being super special. Maybe a favor was done for me by my pdoc but it's not unusual to request to be squeezed into a busy doctors schedule. Ts have longer appointments so maybe that's not possible in he context of therapy and was a poor example. Either way, the reason I point out that other clients are important too is because they are. Not better, not more deserving, but they exist and have just as much claim to available appointments as anyone else. With this in mind they aren't going to hold appointments for undecided clients when another one is ready to take that same spot.
Service providers tend to have very packed schedules and some want to accommodate as many clients as they are able to. It's not a rejection of anyone as a person if they can't wait for you to make a decision, it's just the reality that other people might want their time too. It has nothing to do with how deserving anyone is, it is about time and accessibility.