You are one lucky guy to live near the doctor's clinic. You are freed of the boredom of waiting. My last visit to the doctor was 2 years ago. The hospital is quite far from our home so we had to be early to the clinic to be first in line. There were times that I went home without seeing the doctor for my number did not reach the quota. The time of consultation starts at 5pm so I would be there by 4pm to make sure I get into the quota. But one time I was 3rd in line when the doctor called that she has an emergency operation, huh. Sad, I had to come back the next day and get another number.
If you're too tired to go to a clinic or a hospital, then you should use house call services. MD24 House Call offers these a lot (even Specialty doctors), and their doctors are very experienced, they will resolve your problem quickly. I used their services once. Very great.
Our doctor is 20 miles away and it sometimes take 2 weeks or more to get an appointment but the wait when you get there is usually not long. I was recently sent to a specialist in the big city and I didn't even get a chance to sit down before they took me to the lab and took some blood. The doctor came in just a few minutes later.
I had been to the hospital early morning yesterday for the annual routine checkup as required by our office. Coming early is not an assurance to be the first in line. I arrived before 6am but I was already 3rd in the queue. It is a fasting checkup so my last food intake was 8pm the previous night. And the checkup took a long time more because of the queue to the blood chemistry lab, x-ray, and other sections. I was given the go signal to eat breakfast after 8am. And I had finished everything after 9am. And that's all because of the queue of the patients having their checkup. It looks like the world is really getting too crowded now, huh.