system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
ELI5: Why is it acceptable to wait an hour to see a doctor when you have an appointment?

It's 52 minutes passed and he just started with the guy ahead of me.
gpt
Because we understand that while nobody likes to wait, doctors aren't making you wait because they are reading cosmo and taking the fun quizzes. You have to wait because sometimes emergencies happen and doctors have to attend to that. Or because people make an appointment for something they believe is a tiny issue which then turns out to be not so tiny.