After my first diverticulitis episode in my 50's, it took a while to figure it out...I don't run fever...but my GP has a stat lab and the quick white count check had me in the ER quickly. My GP sent a Gastro doc to meet me at the hospital and he saw me annually. but between times, when I had diverticulitis, I went to my GP because the gastro didn't have a stat lab and the GP did. I was treated for 20 years by white count and symptoms. My gastro told me that I should have had a colon resection after three episodes....and I've had at least 15! Now, I'm 79 and I don't want to risk a resection....something is wrong that these docs aren't communicating. My gastro doc retired. I have a new one. I thought I had diverticulitis and the new doc scoffed that the white count meant anything (??!!) when I'd been diagnosed with white count and symptoms for years. This gastro schedules a CT scan if I have symptoms without treating me...So it is a day or two before I can get the cat scan....if you have symptoms on Friday, you get nothing until Monday which is so risky. Then after a week of antibiotics, another rCT scan to see if "i'm well" I'd love to know what others think. This hanging around for ct scans when my family doc has a stat lab makes no sense.