My psychiatrist was also a hospital administrator, so I was aware that besides his office patients, he also had inpatient clients as well as administrative issues that might come up. I realized he was a medical specialist and it is part and parcel of seeing a specialist that things come up. He was almost always on schedule, but on occasion, things were off and he or his staff communicated that to me. I also know that I was on occasion one of those emergencies that threw off his schedule for other patients. I particularly remember the day I needed to go inpatient and he met me just outside the unit so that legally they could admit me without me having to spend hours in the ER. That’s beyond the call of duty and the reason I stayed with him for years.

Sometimes we don’t realize what is going on behind the scenes, but once you do, you become very patient of that kind of care. My guess is that if your psychiatrist had an emergency, the schedule delay was justified.