El Paso has the longest doctor's office waiting times in the country, a new study shows. The average patient wait time at an El Paso doctor's office was just over 29 minutes -- well above the national average of 21 minutes. The study was by Vitals.com, an online service that provides data about doctors for consumers. Vitals sifted through 314,000 wait time reports from patients, including 519 in El Paso, to come up with averages by city. Some of the doctor profiles on Vitals contain the doctor's average office wait time. Four other Texas cities were among the top 10 cities with the longest waiting times -- Fort Worth, San Antonio, Arlington and Houston. Minneapolis had the shortest average wait time at just over 16 minutes. Consumer Reports Magazine in March reported that its latest survey about doctors found long waits at doctor's offices continue to be a sore point in patient-doctor relationships. Waiting times in emergency rooms were not part of the Vitals study.
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