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I so discussed with my oncologist's team.
Today I showed up for a cardioeckogram. The order wasn't sent to the hospital. They sent an order for a CT that I completed last week. We couldn't reach the oncologist office. The hospital couldn't even reach it.
The order would up by fax 40 minutes after my schedule appointment time. Now I have to wait to be squeezed in. I do have an appointment for 200 pm so I showed up at 11 for a 11:30 appointment and I now will have to wait until 2 unless I can be squeezed in.
I wrote the oncologist I told him stuff not working and I don't know if I can continue to work with his staff. I have an appointment with him on Jan 6. All these appointments I've been doing for the past 2 weeks is for that Jan 6 appointment.
We will see.
It sucks I like my doctor. He doesn't employee his staff. The hospital system does. He has little authority over them.
Denise
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Stuff like that is super-annoying, but I wouldn't drop a doctor I liked over it. You can just as easily get a doctor who's like that too. And there may still be the same administrative problems.
I always used to get my healthcare from a hospital system that tended to have lots of problems like that, but often has really nice doctors. At the ultrasound where my endometrial cancer was recognized, they did something like this, and also couldn't schedule me with a gyn-oncologist right away because the scheduler was out of town. So I went to the other hospital system in town, which is more organized. But my oncologist there is either overworked or is putting in the bare minimum effort to provide me with paint-by-numbers care. And he's a @+#&. (The NPs are nice though).
One of my New Year's resolutions is to get a new, nicer oncologist back at the disorganized hospital.