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| Thu, 07-15-2004 - 10:33am |
Then I had to contact his pediatrician to ask him to call the new endo with the results. He happened to be at the other office and wouldn't be back to our office for a full week. I had to got through the whole explanation with the receptionist as to who I was, who Josh was, what the test was for, did Dr. Draker see them, has he talked to the new endo????? I lay awake at night practicing what I'm going to say and how I'm going to say it! :) I really do. Because it's so complicated and no one has the patience to deal with things anymore. So I want to be as nice as possible but still get my point across.
Of course, Josh's Dr. hadn't talked to the endo. So I waited a day and didn't hear anything. Waited another day and called the pharmacy to see if his new prescription was in - Wishful thinking!!! :)So I called again and found out he still hadn't spoken to him. The endo wasn't returning his calls! Then Josh's doctor finally called me last night to tell me he hadn't spoken to the other doctor and besides, it didn't matter because Josh's results were normal!! I told him Josh's results were absolutely not normal and I could hear him sigh because he's tired of dealing with me on this! LOL! He said they were because they were well within the range of 5.5. So I told him the range was lowered to 3.02 and so Josh's results were well enough OVER normal!!!!! GRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!
So he apologized! LOL! And said he didn't know that. Big surprise. So I said I would call the endo and see what was up. Called the endo this morning and she said, "That's funny, Josh's paperwork just showed up on my desk this morning!" I told her it was an answer to prayer. I explained the whole sordid story of who I was, who Josh was, etc and so on. And it turns out they've been waiting to receive the lab results from Dr. Draker's office!! They waited 2 weeks for the results!! Could Dr. D's office thought to have sent the results? Could someone at the new endo's office thought to have called Dr. D's and asked for them? OMG!!!!!!!!!!! So one last phone call - I hope - to Dr. D's office and she promised to fax the results over to Dr. L within a few minutes of our conversation.
And that's just how stupid it is to deal with this stuff!!! Hope you all appreciated my story! LOL! Cathy :)
Edited 7/15/2004 10:34 am ET ET by cl-cathypem

Oh boy---how stressful!
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Cathy
Now I understand why it is important that we educate our own doctors. I'm thankful that my docs are open to communicating with each other. My endo asked me if I wanted my MD to have a copy of my test results--just like my MD gave me hard copies to take to my 1st endo appointment.
You poor girls. I'm just glad I don't have kids b/c I would be a raving lunatic if someone treated my kids like that. Well, maybe not "raving" lunatic, but definately assertive.
Keep on keepin' on, CL Cathy, you might want to print out that journal article review on shoman's site about the changes from the national endo society.
--Lisa