One of life s bigger time-sucks is sitting in a waiting room for a doctor s appointment that was supposed to start eons ago. Now, doctors offices are taking new tacks to try to reduce wait times.

I t’s not just your doc who’s behind the times: magazines in doctor’s offices really are old, and now a new study in the BMJ proves it.. To test why waiting room mags are so outdated, the ...

Waiting endlessly in a doctor’s office ranks up there as one of life’s premier annoyances, right alongside queuing up at the DMV and getting manhandled at airport security. Short of ...

Inspired by his own visits to the doctor’s office, Arroll purchased 87 magazines–including publications ranging from gossip rags to National Geographic to the Economist–and stacked them in ...

Natasha Crittenden Wilson posted about her trip to the doctor's office on Facebook Tuesday. A woman walked into the waiting room with a sleeping baby, Wilson wrote.

The doctor left and I sat in the room and read my book. When the nurse came in, I told her I had paid for the room for another 12 minutes and I was going to use it. She left without comment.

Wait in style. Dr. Michael Schwartz. Even in the mid-aughts, going to the doctor’s office was quite a different experience than it is now. You’d sit in a dark waiting room, with industrial ...