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A '''waiting room''' is just exactly that: a room where people wait. So what's everyone complaining about? Of course, it's a long wait; you're in the '''waiting room.''' If the clinic or hospital was somehow efficient, it'd be called something like the we'll-be-right-with you room. But it's not. As for the VA waiting rooms? Yeah, those are ridiculously long waits. What's that about? That really needs to be fixed.
Of course, some patients can't wait in the '''waiting room'''. In this scenario, most health care staff are instructed to implement Plan B: inundating patients with painfully-long questionnaires to distract the patients from the waiting process.<ref>[http://gomerblog.com/2014/05/waiting-room/ Waiting Room Questionnaires Actually Giant Distraction]</ref>
Another approach is to appease patients. Local emergency physicians in Hanover, NJ New Jersey leave a large bowel of [[Percocet (Oxycodone & Acetaminophen)|Percocet]] in the '''waiting room''' to keep everyone happy.<ref>[http://gomerblog.com/2014/01/percocet/ ER Places Bowl Full of Percocet in Waiting Room, Lowers Visits]</ref> One physician by the name of Dr. Dufunk tries to Some physicians try keep his their clinic patients happy by putting Tostitos chips out in his their '''waiting roomrooms'''.<ref>[http://gomerblog.com/2013/10/doctor-chips/ Doctor Puts Tostitos Restaurant Style Chips and Salsa in Waiting Room, Business Booms]</ref>
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Easy: develop chest pain.<ref>[http://gomerblog.com/2013/08/tired-of-waiting-patient-develops-chest-pain-in-er/ Tired of Waiting, Patient Develops “Chest Pain” in ER]</ref>