Post-COVID and post-post-COVID, the GP waiting room in the UK National Health Service (NHS) has become a ghostly revenant. This chapter provides a critical archaeology of the sedimented temporal layers of the waiting room, deploying an analysis influenced by both post-structuralist and Soviet semiotic thought. It draws on a range of materials, including visual materials collected in four GP practices, stories shared as part of engaged research during COVID, a brief autoethnographic reflection by the author, and a close reading of Samuel Beckett’s Ill Seen Ill Said. In doing so, it offers reflections on the spatio-temporal organisations of power in the waiting room, and how the complete assemblage of waiting operates as a disciplining, rationing and conditioning machine. Ultimately, this chapter stands as a plea to avoid the erasures of humanity and human relationality that such regimes of waiting can enact on the waiting subjects.