Gp After Hours Fremantle

The beauty of an after hours clinic is usually the convenience it meets, being available when you need it.. . not at 1: pm on a Sunday afternoon! Being misinformed by the information centre, I arrived at this practice 3 hours early with nothing to do but wait. A male nurse asked if I needed to be seen urgently and I explained I didn’t have any emergency that I was aware of, just plans for the day. he said that if I wanted to try my luck I should check out the emergency department and see if anyone was free as that may be faster.- (considering this building is situated in «Block A» of the hospital– this seemed like a logical idea) however I sat on the one bench provided. . and waited, and waited and waited.. .I lasted about an hour and fifteen minutes before I decided to check out how busy the emergency ward was. I know free has real people too, but I couldn’t imagine it would be like any capital city. Well, was I mistaken, I let everyone in front of my that had obvious issues (a marine sting, a baby, a burn.. .) I had been waiting for almost an hour and a half before I was seen and by then i somewhat sheepishly explained that i needed a check up before I leave in 2 weeks. The nurse looked at me, sympathetically– but explained as this was the emergency department and i didn’t have an emergency I should go to the GP around the corner (I was too embarrassed to tell her that’s where I’d come from) so I thanked her and left– getting more aggravated about having left the bench in the first place.
When 1: pm did finally roll on, I buzzed the door and a found receptionist let me in with her pre-​prepared pile of clipboards (perhaps that’s why they open so late?) and began by explaining the fees. Fair enough $ 65:ish may be a standard fee for a doctor these days but bring back bulk billing is what I say– frustrated more about the misinformation I had received rather than their service, i left feeling like 3 hours of my life had been ripped off me! I’m not sure that I will return to that GP.. . in fact the more I think about it, the more I am inclined to stab myself in the eye and get through to the emergency department.