116 Becoming a Patient
definitions of time. Many of these physicians became disappointed with
how the ‘‘timetables’’ of physicians and patients collided. In particular,
many expressed surprise at problems with waiting to receive care, and at
how much distress these delays caused.
Views and experiences of time have been examined in many social
domains, but less in medicine. Still, the amount of time physicians have
with each patient may be decreasing (4), though the implications of this
change on patients’ experiences have been underexplored.
In general, time is measure