Sentences with phrase «in waiting rooms»

Good care is not cheap, and many veterinarians have many Samaritans in their waiting rooms every year.

Matt and Jamie found the inspiration for the Shamrock Animal Fund while sitting in waiting rooms of veterinary hospitals in the later years of life for their beloved poodle Shamrock.

Suddenly I was reading at the bus stop, while on the bus, in waiting rooms, or anytime I had a few minutes of downtime.

But go above mere distraction — make sure that the time spent in waiting rooms is well used by providing your patients with information about your medical services and their general health.

Parents who spend time in waiting rooms with their kids - at the dentist, doctor, hospital or even a car dealership - inherently recognize that the tattered books provided to keep the kids busy have been handled by hundreds or thousands of grubby hands.

On the Kindle, I have been told my stories make excellent commuting fare, or in waiting rooms, of course.

when amelia gets stuck at the doctors office with nothing to do.so amelia makes a guide with 50 fun things to do so she'll never be bored again.this book is good for surviving boredom in waiting rooms, rainy days, whatever!

The only time I read on my iPhone is in waiting rooms or at my work desk trying to finish that chapter that got interrupted by the end of lunch.

There are a lot of mobile games that compete for our attention, and for many of us that means finding a simple game that we can become addicted to — at least in waiting rooms.

Fruit Ninja is one of those games that is cleverly simple but difficult to master; it is face - paced enough to keep you engaged, but quick enough to play it easily passes the time in waiting rooms.

I carried my notebook with me and wrote on the road, on trains and planes and in waiting rooms.

This just underlines what I've come to believe: In an age of handheld mobile reading devices — where you can read on the subway, in buses, in waiting rooms, anywhere — we are in a new Silver Age of the short form.

Leave them in waiting rooms of offices, post them up to bulletin boards, and see if you can share them at libraries and some local bookstores.

No more wasting time in waiting rooms or spending less than 15 minutes with your doctor.

Do this while you are waiting in waiting rooms at your children's check - ups.

Let's be real — going to the doctor means sitting in waiting rooms for a long time and having uncomfortable conversations and it is generally off - putting so most guys never bother to get their testosterone levels checked.

Menopausal women tell me they re tired of sitting in waiting rooms with pregnant women and feeling like no one is paying attention to them.

Requiring more visits increases the burden on parents and could expose children to more illnesses from sick patients in waiting rooms, Offit says.

In corner shops, at train stations, in the supermarket, left on a seat of a bus, in waiting rooms, in coffee shops and greasy spoons, and discussed on numerous TV and radio programmes throughout the day.

The bonus: it's a great way to keep your preschooler busy on long car rides, in waiting rooms, or while waiting on lines.

The «I Spy» game can easily be played at home as well and, once children have really gotten the hang of it, in the car, in waiting rooms, in line at the supermarket, or really anywhere at all.

Distribute the pamphlets in waiting rooms at doctor's offices, natural birthing centers, hospitals and / or local natural birthing classes, or to their instructors.

So on the way to therapy, in waiting rooms, when the kids are screaming bloody mary in the backseat I had access to it.

Most NHS GPs no longer have magazines in the waiting rooms, for infection control purposes.

It's easy to stash in the diaper bag to keep baby entertained while traveling or in waiting rooms.

We use busy bags when traveling, in church, in waiting rooms..

Consider suggesting guessing games such as «20 Questions» or «I Spy» during times of waiting (while in waiting rooms or waiting in line, while making dinner or while the bath is filling, for example).

I would share the DSi with my husband, we have been spending a lot of time in waiting rooms and hospitals because he is fighting cancer.

Those countless hours in waiting rooms could mean that my kid could be learning something.

I revealed enough of her body to make the point... no more than would be seen in most common magazines most of us have in our homes or leaf through in waiting rooms.

In bed, in chemo chairs, in waiting rooms, I try to say something about dying in a world where everything happens for a reason.

When I started as a hospital content writer, I would hang out in the waiting rooms and ask patients questions about what types of content they would like to see on the website.

Why you should care: ZocDoc is an app and website that lets you schedule various kinds of doctors appointments and even fill out some of the paperwork ahead of time so that you won't have to spend as much time in the waiting room.

They don't have to drive downtown, find expensive parking, go to a big office building, sit in a waiting room, and feel intimidated.

I sat in a waiting room with my wife and looked at a clock on the wall and listened to a doctor discuss my prognosis with a nurse, and it hit me pretty hard that life is fleeting.

Everyone knows to arrive early, but here's what most people don't know: there may be gatekeepers, but having time to cool your heels in the waiting room for 30 minutes looks sloppy.

For an American, this was bizarre: My butt barely touched the seat in the waiting room before my name was called.

They cut down additional time spent in the waiting room by offering the endless pile of paperwork online for patients to fill out in advance.

• Social media • On your website • On your blog • Through email (and email signatures) • Pick up the phone and tell them • On your invoices • Signage on your vehicle • In your waiting room • Send a letter • On your phone message • Signage • In your advertising

«Well, I've been sitting here all day / I've been sitting in this waiting room / And I've been waiting on my friends / Yes, waiting on this conference call — all alone / And I'm on hold, well yes, I'm on hold / I hope it's not all day»

Remote mental health care can help fill gaps in geographies where mental health specialists are not readily available or provide a more private way for employees to seek help without fear of running into someone they know in the waiting room.

We'll use smartphones to scan for risk factors of high blood pressure or type - 2 diabetes, «visit» with specialists remotely at medical kiosks — and when we do go for an in - person exam, we'll spend the bulk of time seeing the doctor rather than reading old magazines in the waiting room.

We could probably swap negative stories for hours about being endlessly put on hold by the front desk, waiting too long for an appointment that you need, sitting in the waiting room for your appointment that was 30 minutes ago, or being told that you need to book another appointment to address an issue because you're out of time.

One day, sitting in the waiting room of the hospital, I picked up a copy of the Bible.

I sat there in the waiting room, weeping like a child as Bootsy sat there looking at me, skin and bones, vacant eyes.

Her father was down the hall in critical condition and her mother was coming undone in the waiting room, but she didn't know any of it.

Well get to it then, the stapler is in the waiting room and won't stop biting things.

Many of us shine light into the dark in quieter ways: by volunteering at a soup kitchen or a prison, by donating blood, by sitting in the waiting room during a friend's surgery, by caring for an aging parent.

There is a story of two men that were waiting in a waiting room outside of an office after both of their deaths.

I remember Guideposts... mainly reading it in some waiting room in the doctor's office.