I hafta go see a Womens Health doctor soon for ...well...never mind what for. Wimmens stuff. My doc doesn't do that. He just does the basics. Now, Doctors farm you out to all kinds of "specialists" instead of doing what docs used to do when I was a kid and in my teen years. Nowadays, docs just give flu shots, look in yer ears, take your blood pressure, order blood tests. Anything else? Gotta get a "referral" from his office to another office cuz the other office will not see you as walk in or even trying to make an appt. Nope. Gotta get a referral from your regular doctor.
So....this new Womens Health Care place send me a packet of papers to fill out before I go in, otherwise they will have to "renew the appointment for another day", and this packet was TEN FUCKING PAGES of stupid questions and each one had to be signed and dated and me printing my name on EACH ONE. I stuck a note in there after my hour of struggling to hold the fucking inkpen to answer their idiotic questions and signing my name and the note said "I use two ply white non scented toilet paper, too. Any more questions?" then signed my name again. Cost me almost 2 bucks to mail the damn thing back to them it was so thick and heavy.
I have to do this for ANY doctor I see OTHER than my regular physician. I have to go to the dermatologist as well, and yep....another packet is coming in the mail because I have seen him before but it has been 2 years. After 2 years, you are treated as a new patient. NOR can they just ask the regular doc to fax over whatever they need on my medical files. Nope. Too hard for them. Lets just make the old folks do it cuz they are too busy buffing and polishing their nails as they sit there answering phones or calling patients into the back room for their 15 minutes with Doc. Oh, and don't dare bring up more than ONE problem per appointment. Nope. Gotta make ANOTHER appt just to say "btw, I have this huge knot on my ass" or "I think I found a lump" cuz the reason you are there TODAY is to get refills of meds and your BP taken and your ear hurts. Got another pain? MAKE ANOTHER APPOINTMENT. That 15 minutes goes fast.
/end of rant. I miss the old days of docs being DOCS.
So....this new Womens Health Care place send me a packet of papers to fill out before I go in, otherwise they will have to "renew the appointment for another day", and this packet was TEN FUCKING PAGES of stupid questions and each one had to be signed and dated and me printing my name on EACH ONE. I stuck a note in there after my hour of struggling to hold the fucking inkpen to answer their idiotic questions and signing my name and the note said "I use two ply white non scented toilet paper, too. Any more questions?" then signed my name again. Cost me almost 2 bucks to mail the damn thing back to them it was so thick and heavy.
I have to do this for ANY doctor I see OTHER than my regular physician. I have to go to the dermatologist as well, and yep....another packet is coming in the mail because I have seen him before but it has been 2 years. After 2 years, you are treated as a new patient. NOR can they just ask the regular doc to fax over whatever they need on my medical files. Nope. Too hard for them. Lets just make the old folks do it cuz they are too busy buffing and polishing their nails as they sit there answering phones or calling patients into the back room for their 15 minutes with Doc. Oh, and don't dare bring up more than ONE problem per appointment. Nope. Gotta make ANOTHER appt just to say "btw, I have this huge knot on my ass" or "I think I found a lump" cuz the reason you are there TODAY is to get refills of meds and your BP taken and your ear hurts. Got another pain? MAKE ANOTHER APPOINTMENT. That 15 minutes goes fast.
/end of rant. I miss the old days of docs being DOCS.
