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Crappy #$#%#% people @ the Doctor's office
Cheryl P. wrote:
I know the rationale behind using specialists for routine primary health care, but it still seems odd to me, like using an elephant gun to kill a mosquito. Sometimes it just works out that way. I went to see a gyn for a routine exam (PAP, etc). I really liked her a lot, and I wasn't happy with my then current GP, so I asked the gyn if she also did general practice. She did, and she became my regular doctor for several years. I only left her practice because I moved away. I don't remember her fees being particulary high. -- Joyce ^..^ (To email me, remove the X's from my user name.) |
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Crappy #$#%#% people @ the Doctor's office
On Mon, 11 Aug 2008 15:54:48 -0700, Joy wrote:
wrote in message ... Matthew wrote: Well yet again the idiots at my doctors office screwed up again. So no sleep study tonight I called to make sure what time to be in there tonight if I had to be there at 8:30 or before. Now they confirmed everything yesterday afternoon 24 hours in advance. The girl tells me well ummm I forgot to call the tech so he won't be here tonight. Wow, that's some major incompetence. Although I'm stunned that she admitted honestly that it was her fault! I had a sleep study a few weeks ago. At my HMO, they attach all the equipment to your body on the evening of the test, and then send you home to sleep. They explained that they started doing it this way because "people sleep better in their own beds". My foot! They do it that way because it's cheaper, and for no other reason. In your particular situation, you would have been better off at the lab. However, I'm sure they are right that most people sleep better in their own beds. I know I do. Joy Anyway, the procedure is that you sleep with the stuff on you for one night, and then take it off in the morning and bring it back to them. The equipment measures changes in the position of your chest and diaphragm, to see if you stop breathing, and your blood oxygenation via a clip on your finger. So I bring it all back the next day, and within a couple of hours I get a call saying, "The equipment apparently failed, and we were unable to get any data at all." I do remember that the oxygen clip on my finger had a glowing red light when I first put it on, but as I got into bed, I noticed it had gone out. This concerned me, but at that point it was after midnight, so there was nothing I could do about it. Whereas, if I had been having the sleep study *in their lab*, they would have found this problem immediately and corrected it! The HMO wanted me to reschedule the sleep study, but since I was leaving them and joining a PPO on August 1, I dropped the issue. (PPO = "Preferred Provider..." something... Option?" Anyway it's a type of insurance plan where you get to choose your own doctors. If you choose someone within their preferred provider list, you get excellent coverage. But you can also choose someone "out of network" (ie, not on their list), and you can get some coverage for that, too, something like 50% of the bill. So it can cost you more, if you prefer a doctor who happens not to be in their network, but at least you have the option of doing so. With an HMO, you are only allowed to see doctors in their organization. And you're getting health care from people whose salaries are paid by the very organization that's paying for your visit! Conflict of interest anyone?) I now have to find a general practitioner in my new health plan, who I will ask to recommend a sleep study for me. There's a very good sleep lab at Stanford University, where I had my 1998 sleep study. I'm hoping I can go there again. We can schedule you to go down there tomorrow she tells me. Their office is in Fort Lauderdale a 4 hour trip each way with perfect traffic. I said ok when can I come buy and pick up the money for the gas. No answer LOL, good one. I love my doctor to death but he hires idiots. If they ain't losing blood work and paper work. They conveniently forget to do things or have the wrong file out when you go into see the doctor This was bad, but I think the worst story of staff incompetence I've heard, at least on this ng, had to be when Christina W. was suffering from a major hernia, and the staff people had her running up and down several flights of stairs because nobody seemed to know where her appointment was supposed to be! -- Joyce ^..^ (To email me, remove the X's from my user name.) When I was originally diagnosed with sleep apnea, I went through two formal sleep studies, in a lab (one to diagnose the apnea, the second one to discover what pressure setting I needed on the CPAP machine). The lab setup monitored my blood pressure, heart rate, and brain activity as well as blood oxygen level. Those other criteria would be tricky to do at home. Since then, I have had a couple of times the doctor simply had me wear an oxygen sensor clipped to my finger overnight, sleeping in my own bed. Incidentally, I now have to wear an elastic chin-strap at night to keep my mouth shut. Otherwise, it tends to sag partway open, letting much of the CPAP's air pressure escape. -- John F. Eldredge -- PGP key available from http://pgp.mit.edu "Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all." -- Hypatia of Alexandria |
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Crappy #$#%#% people @ the Doctor's office
Matthew wrote:
Well yet again the idiots at my doctors office screwed up again. So no sleep study tonight I called to make sure what time to be in there tonight if I had to be there at 8:30 or before. Now they confirmed everything yesterday afternoon 24 hours in advance. The girl tells me well ummm I forgot to call the tech so he won't be here tonight. He can be here Friday I said no Monday thru Wednesday nights only the rest of the time I am on call that says it in my file. We can schedule you to go down there tomorrow she tells me. Their office is in Fort Lauderdale a 4 hour trip each way with perfect traffic. I said ok when can I come buy and pick up the money for the gas. No answer she says well we can get you in next Monday. So now I got to wait another week again I love my doctor to death but he hires idiots. If they ain't losing blood work and paper work. They conveniently forget to do things or have the wrong file out when you go into see the doctor You have my sympathies, Matthew. I hope you get your sleep study done as scheduled, and get it over with! Ginger-lyn |
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Crappy #$#%#% people @ the Doctor's office
"Ginger-lyn" Matthew wrote: Well yet again the idiots at my doctors office screwed up again. So no sleep study tonight I called to make sure what time to be in there tonight if I had to be there at 8:30 or before. Now they confirmed everything yesterday afternoon 24 hours in advance. The girl tells me well ummm I forgot to call the tech so he won't be here tonight. He can be here Friday I said no Monday thru Wednesday nights only the rest of the time I am on call that says it in my file. We can schedule you to go down there tomorrow she tells me. Their office is in Fort Lauderdale a 4 hour trip each way with perfect traffic. I said ok when can I come buy and pick up the money for the gas. No answer she says well we can get you in next Monday. So now I got to wait another week again I love my doctor to death but he hires idiots. If they ain't losing blood work and paper work. They conveniently forget to do things or have the wrong file out when you go into see the doctor You have my sympathies, Matthew. I hope you get your sleep study done as scheduled, and get it over with! Ginger-lyn Yes, I agree, and he should get all Vin Diesel on them for being such idiots. Kyla |
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