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The Best Times of Day to Visit the Doctor

There are two places that people dread visiting: the DMV and the doctor’s office.

For whatever reason, both places tend to make your visit an excruciating painful routine of waiting, waiting, and more waiting.

While Web Watch can’t help you with the DMV, we can help you with your doctor visits.  Common sense says to book your doctor’s visit first thing in the morning, before they get backed up with patients that talk too much or have more complicated issues than you do.

But is that really the best time?

Let’s take a look at what one company has discovered to be the ABSOLUTE BEST TIMES and WORST TIMES to visit the doctor’s office:

  • Most popular appointment times are Mondays at 2p and Fridays at 10am.  Try to avoid those if you can.
  • Generally speaking, the most popular times are between 10a and 2p any day of the week.  If you’re looking for an open slot during those times, you may be hard-pressed to find one.
  • Thursdays will have you waiting the longest.  Why?  Couldn’t tell you.
  • Fridays have the fewest appointments. Don’t know if that’s because the office purposefully schedules fewer slots that day or if there really is more availability.  Tuesdays usually have the most appointments overall.
  • Mondays have the shortest wait times
  • Fridays are most popular for acupuncture and chiropractic appointments. Gotta get ready for that weekend, don’tcha know