I know a member of my family asked to be placed on a call list in case someone missed an appointment or cancelled at the last moment. A two month wait was reduced to less than a week (on a one hour notice) by simply asking for a call when the appointment was made for months later. Filling these time slots makes sense.Originally posted by rage2
Anyone can really "queue jump". Let's take MRI's for instance. The way the system is setup, everyday the techs have a list of ppl that are scheduled for an MRI that day from the big year long wait list. There are missed appointments every single day, and if you're around, the techs can queue jump you in. There's ppl that's missed previous appointments that hang out and wait for these openings.
Now, if you know an MRI tech, you can get txt'd when there is an opening. Everyone does this, not just politicians.
If you don't want queue jumpers, you'd make the system even more inefficient. Force the techs to do nothing if someone missed an appointment haha. It's not like they're pushing ppl out of line for preferential treatment.