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Psivage · 10-01-2003, 03:37 PM

Is it up to the patient to check with the doctor to see if everything is alright or should the doctor called them?
If it is the Doctor responsibility then what is a reasonable amount of time to wait to hear anything?

I had to go to the Doctor recently, they pissed me off. I had to called them 3 times to get my damn results. I have a urine infection, and if I hadn't called them god only knows when they would got back to me. Stil though I had to call three time. First time was about 9:30 am, left a voice mail, then I called 4:30 pm, the nurse there said she didn't get my voice mail, got me a little pissed off, said she will call in the morning. She didn't I waited till 11:00 am and called again, they wanted to put me on voice mail again, I told them no I need to speak to someone live. Finally got through, as I thought I had a infection. So I asked what kind of pills should I be on, the fucking doctor hasn't even looked at it. This really pissed me off, I have a kidney transplant and you don't want to fuck around with infection. So the nurse I think the nurse caught on I was a little pissed off so she had the doctor look at it right away and she will get back to me. I think if I hadn't called them again I still would be waiting. I would of been really pissed off if I had to go to the emergecny room and get a damn IV put in me. I had to do that twice, had to wait a fucken hour each time, it was a slow drip medicine. Anyways just needed to let off steam.

10-01-2003, 03:37 PM	#1 (permalink)
Psivage Psycho	Patients Responsibilities. Is it up to the patient to check with the doctor to see if everything is alright or should the doctor called them? If it is the Doctor responsibility then what is a reasonable amount of time to wait to hear anything? I had to go to the Doctor recently, they pissed me off. I had to called them 3 times to get my damn results. I have a urine infection, and if I hadn't called them god only knows when they would got back to me. Stil though I had to call three time. First time was about 9:30 am, left a voice mail, then I called 4:30 pm, the nurse there said she didn't get my voice mail, got me a little pissed off, said she will call in the morning. She didn't I waited till 11:00 am and called again, they wanted to put me on voice mail again, I told them no I need to speak to someone live. Finally got through, as I thought I had a infection. So I asked what kind of pills should I be on, the fucking doctor hasn't even looked at it. This really pissed me off, I have a kidney transplant and you don't want to fuck around with infection. So the nurse I think the nurse caught on I was a little pissed off so she had the doctor look at it right away and she will get back to me. I think if I hadn't called them again I still would be waiting. I would of been really pissed off if I had to go to the emergecny room and get a damn IV put in me. I had to do that twice, had to wait a fucken hour each time, it was a slow drip medicine. Anyways just needed to let off steam.