Doctor's Office Waiting Rooms

The erudite and experienced staff at the Interested-Participant Research Lab has concluded its investigation on the origin of doctor's office waiting rooms. It was discovered that sometime in the 19th Century, an unknown member of the medical community in Heidelburg, Germany, set aside a separate room in his house for his patients to wait since the neighbors were complaining about the noise created by so many women in the street gossiping. It appears that women congregating at doctor's offices created such disturbance that it became necessary to put them somewhere.

Based upon this finding, further research was performed to determine why only women caused the genesis of the waiting room. After extensive review, it was found that women actually enjoy going to the doctor's office, often arriving early and leaving late. It was also found that women tend to extend the duration of each visit using various stalling techniques, such as, asking numerous questions, prolonging the time taken to disrobe and then get dressed, and engaging the doctor and staff in mindless chit-chat.

By contrast, the researchers noticed that, in addition to men disliking any time being spent at the doctor's office, they don't even like going. Men maintain that going to the doctor only increases the chances of being hospitalized and it's generally recognized that more people die in hospitals than anywhere else. During a survey of a whole bunch of guys, many responded that the doctor should have drive-through service. This is supported by the fact that men customarily are credited with the invention of the emergency room for fast service. However, since everyone has equal access to the emergency room, it became necessary to accommodate women in addition to providing fast service for men. Consequently, the emergency room was outfitted with its own waiting room for the women.

The Intelligent and Cheap Resources Institute (ICRI) refused to support or dispute the findings. Also, the Interested-Participant Research Lab is an independent entity and is not affiliated with this weblog.