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teri

I'm so sorry you have had to go through this. When you do get your results look at who is calling. Is it the Doctor or the office nurse. If it is the Nurse like in alot of offices make sure you let the doctor know what you have gone through. It may not have been the Doctor's fault. It could have been the lab not getting results to them quick enough even though it's a STAT, or the staff not returning calls when they should. If it is the doctor's fault still let him know how upset you have been all weekend but if the fault is somewhere else he needs to know his staff is not following through. I hope you are able to get your results quickly today. I would call the office as soon as they open don't wait for them. Good Luck and I hope all results are good

My Drs. office claims the Dr. spoke to me on Friday????

I was never more than 4' from the phone. I ended up having IV treatment in the ER today. At least they didn't admit me.

Thank you all for being my support. I love you guys.

I don't always think it's the doctors fault at times. No offense to those who work in doctors offices LOL, but sometimes those that work there take it upon themselves to handle things and end up not talking or communicating with the doc. We just had this experience over the weekend and today. My husband found that the doctor ordered a change of script and didn't tell him. He talked to the doctor himself and the doctor was willing to see what went wrong. He was told to call the prescription line and he would take care of it. Well, nothing was done and so my husband called and talked to the lady on the prescription line and tryed to explain what happened. Well, she started in on how the doctor never would have prescriped it that way and my hubby told her he has for years. She called our pharmacy and still insisted after being told what the script usually was. She refused to talk to the doctor and said that we'll keep it this way now. My husband was so mad he wanted to cuss them out. No one even the doctor told him of any change in scripts, and the nurse (?) took it upon herself to deal with it.

Hubby doesn't want to fight with her so he's going to try to talk to the doctor in the next appoint.

It was totally frustrating and wrong. She was supposed to talk to the doctor today when she received my hubbys call and never did! I know because as soon as she got off the phone, she called our pharmacy immediately (my husband warned the pharmacy right a way and she was on the line with the nurse. So we do know she didn't have time to talk to the doc.

I think I'm rambling, but it was so upsetting. This sort of stuff happened to my sister in Az. She found out the nurses or who ever handle these matters would never call her back. She finally told the doctor and she apologized to my sis. So sometimes it's not the doc but some staff members.

However, for all you GREAT people who work in the doctors offices and do the job right.....it's much appreciated!

Take care and sorry about venting and going on!

Spruce

Who is this lady on the prescription line? Is she a doctor?

I guess I had to defend the nurse in the office a little bit. The doctor is known to abuse their help at times. I also had to vent because of what has happened to me. I hope all ended well and your hubby got what he needed. He was lucky that he knew enough that his script wasn't right and was able to take care of it. What about the little old people that can't? Who is taking care of them. It goes back to what I started with. Physicians are trying to see too many patients a day. Finish one patient before you start another and don't talk to me while you are walkin to the door or with your back to me going out the door. I paid to see your face.

Post edited by: cadburry, at: 04/21/2008 23:38

I was scanning over a few of the topics and saw your post. I don't see anything giving a final result yet but I hope everything is ok for you. Please hang in there. Just as a couple of others said, stress only makes things worse and believe me, I know it's not easy to overcome, just gotta try hard as you can.

Midnyte

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