That’s odd. I know long waits (not quite ten hours, maybe one, two or three) from specialized doctors here in Germany, not ever primary care doctors. I have to wait maybe thirty minutes for my primary doctor, probably not at all if I call him up in the morning and go there later the day or the next day.

I know that the reverse must also be true for some rural areas in East Germany, an unattractive area with low pay and hard work where the doctors are slowly dying out and nobody wants to replace them, but that really seems limited to rural East Germany.

Why is that?