My friend Chad called me up and said that he needed a ride to his doctor’s appointment because he had a check up scheduled that he didn’t want to cancel. It was a good thing that he had caught me on a day off from work, but I said that I could take him. When we got there I grabbed a magazine to do some light reading while I had to wait for him. The nurse called him back to the exam room, and Chad told me just to come back with him. We waited for a while, and then the doctor came into the room. [...]

The doctor invited us both back again soon for another visit, and I had to say that after that experience in the clinic I wanted to go back. I told the doctor that I would go ahead and get insurance now, because I wanted to see what more we could examine in the next appointment. The nurse told us that it could be two weeks before she could get us back in, but that she would call us if someone canceled their appointment.