The patient may be admitted under the care of any one of a number of specialists who admit patients from this pooled list. Some doctors choose to keep lists of booked patients in their consulting rooms and only provide details to hospitals a short time before their admission. If this is the case, the hospital and NSW Health does not have information on the total waiting time for these patients. Consequently, waiting times displayed here may appear shorter than that which the patients may actually experience. Doctor recently appointed A doctor who has been recently appointed to a hospital would normally have a relatively short waiting time.
Many doctors treat patients in private hospitals.
This may impact on their reported public hospital waiting times. The website also provides patients with a few questions that they may wish to ask you if they need to see a specialist. Patients may undergo a period of anxiety when they are facing the need to see a specialist for surgery, therefore, the site also has a list a questions patients may wish to ask their specialist . Following your patient's consultation with their specialist they may then discuss with you the outcome and gain further clarification from you, should it be required. Note that both sets of questions tend to assume that the specialist is a surgeon and it may not be appropriate to ask some of these questions of a physician.