{"id":581,"date":"2009-06-12T16:17:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-12T20:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/?p=581"},"modified":"2009-06-12T16:17:00","modified_gmt":"2009-06-12T20:17:00","slug":"quality-waiting-for-the-cardiologist-and-the-orthopedist-and-the-dermatologist-new-america-blogs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/?p=581","title":{"rendered":"QUALITY: Waiting for &#8230;the Cardiologist. And the Orthopedist. And the Dermatologist&#8230; | New America Blogs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newamerica.net\/blog\/new-health-dialogue\/2009\/health-reform-waiting-cardiologist-12304\">QUALITY: Waiting for &#8230;the Cardiologist. And the Orthopedist. And the Dermatologist&#8230; New America Blogs<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Health care consultants <a href=\"http:\/\/www.merritthawkins.com\/pdf\/mha2009waittimesurvey.pdf\">Merritt Hawkins and Associates&#8230;looked at waiting times in 15 American cities for nonemergency care<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, the average wait was three weeks\u2014up from 8.6 days since the last survey of this type in 2004 -for a routine heart checkup from a cardiologist, a checkup for skin cancer from a dermatologist, a painful or injured knee from an orthopedic surgeon, a &#8216;well woman&#8217; exam from an OB\/GYN and a routine physical from a family practitioner. But there was a huge variety in wait times, anything from one day to an entire year.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Going to the actual document is interesting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>QUALITY: Waiting for &#8230;the Cardiologist. And the Orthopedist. And the Dermatologist&#8230; New America Blogs: &#8220;Health care consultants Merritt Hawkins and Associates&#8230;looked at waiting times in 15 American cities for nonemergency &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/?p=581\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;QUALITY: Waiting for &#8230;the Cardiologist. And the Orthopedist. And the Dermatologist&#8230; | New America Blogs&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-waiting-times"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}