• doctors was: FidoGazette

    From NANCY BACKUS@1:123/140 to JANIS KRACHT on Tue Aug 14 17:07:00 2018
    Quoting Janis Kracht to Nancy Backus on 08-11-18 22:42 <=-

    [...]
    Total unconcern by the doc's office and the doc while we're there
    though :(
    Sometimes there's good reason for the doc running late... My GI doctor
    (now retired) always ran late... but that was because he'd always take
    all the time needed to really talk with and examine his patients... one never felt like he didn't care... He was worth waiting the extra time
    for...

    Sure I understand that as well. I know our doc is a pretty busy
    fellow, but what I'm saying is he shouldn't be 'overbooking'.

    I remember once when my doc complained to me that his staff kept putting
    too many appointments into his schedule, not paying attention to how
    long each actually was likely to take.... I'm sure that part of that was
    due to his popularity as a doctor, though... That particular day, he
    looked pretty run-down, though, and I commiserated with him... I think
    that's what drew out the complaint...

    The situation developed because I guess a number of partners in the
    group were vacationing so he had to cover some of that. When his
    office started to see the appt's running late, why not call his
    patients and tell them what is going on??

    It might just not have occurred to them... staff can be pretty oblivious sometimes.... But I agree that would have been a nice courtesy...

    First, it's a trek for us to go from Ithaca to Binghamton (about an
    hour)... and we have to make the appointments at a certain time of day
    since Ron has to be back in time to give his 97 year old aunt her
    diabetes shots and meds. We're it for her care, so it really gets us
    upset when they do this kind of thing :(
    Have you looked for a doctor closer to home...? Seems an even bigger
    waste when one goes that far to not even be seen....

    Talk about a shortage of doctors around here.. :( It's not easy to
    get in to see a new one.

    And besides, when you have a doctor you like, and have a relationship
    with, it makes sense to try to stay with him/her... If you made
    appointments now with a new doctor locally, probably it would be within
    the year, so reasonable to set up ahead of time....? I hear you,
    though... this year I've had to make appointments with new
    specialists... the one, I made a month ago, and the earliest opening was
    in November.... fortunately it isn't something emergency (although, I
    bet if I needed her services from the ER, I'd get in sooner for the
    followup... [g] ...maybe... [g]) Just made another appt with another
    doctor for something else, earliest was the end of September, and the
    scheduler was surprised she found something that close... ;)

    ttyl neb

    ... "A cat is only domestic so far as suits its own needs." - Heinlein

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  • From Dale Shipp@1:261/1466 to Nancy Backus on Thu Aug 16 00:47:02 2018
    On 08-14-18 17:07, Nancy Backus <=-
    spoke to Janis Kracht about doctors was: FidoGazette <=-

    And besides, when you have a doctor you like, and have a relationship with, it makes sense to try to stay with him/her... If you made

    We did do that for the past decade or two, but then he died.
    Fortunately, we were able to move to another doctor with the same
    practice.

    Dale Shipp
    fido_261_1466 (at) verizon (dot) net
    (1:261/1466)


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  • From NANCY BACKUS@1:123/140 to DALE SHIPP on Fri Aug 17 21:10:00 2018
    Quoting Dale Shipp to Nancy Backus on 08-16-18 00:47 <=-

    And besides, when you have a doctor you like, and have a relationship
    with, it makes sense to try to stay with him/her... If you made

    We did do that for the past decade or two, but then he died.
    Fortunately, we were able to move to another doctor with the same practice.

    Two of mine retired recently... one I've been able to get a good
    replacement for, the other I'm still working on... The latter, I wasn't
    able to stay with the same practice, which might have worked out well
    enough... my retiring doctor referred me to a different practice, and
    the doctor there I tried first didn't really work out well, so I'll be
    checking out another in that practice before I look elsewhere...

    At one point, I was taking my neighbor to a doctor that she was very
    happy with... he kept moving further and further away, and we just kept
    going the longer distances so that she could still go to him... until he finally moved too far out.... she was very disappointed, but it was
    really too far for her to travel.... the last workable move, she was
    seeing him in Canandaigua...

    ttyl neb

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