Re: - Doc Appts.

[Guest guest]

Jerry: Agreed and if I get the runaround later today when I call

(it's now 2am!!) then I will be asking his office for a copy of my

files with them and will have to start looking in earnest for a new

doctor. Although I plan on doing this soon anyway. I'm just really

concerned about this battery acid feeling and when you told me your

story, I realized that it could be something more serious that

needed immediate attention. To get an appointment with any doctor

in Boston is going to take at least a month..and even if I try and

explain that I need to be seen sooner they usually tell me the best

they can do is keep me on their cancellation list and if it gets so

bad I can't stand it to go to ER. I mean, maybe if I can get ahold

of the Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital's Pancreatic Center they won't

give me that old song and dance so bottom line is I need to call

them today as well....

Thanks

> >

> > Well, I guess just writing to you all earlier prompted me enough

to

> > call my " old " GI doc (recall: The one who said he'd see me on " as

> > needed basis " after referring me to the God-Like Doctor in

Boston who

> > proclaimed that I didn't have pancreas problems w/o performing

any

> > tests, etc. Just for info for those that may not know that whole

> > sordid story!)

> >

> > At any rate, I call figuring that this new burning, acid battery

type

> > pain/symptom is something new since he's seen me last and to me

at

> > least that should signal an " as needed " appointment. I get left

on

> > hold for almost 10 mins. with various people picking up and

asking who

> > I'm holding for. Then, Dr. S's nurse gets on there and says that

she

> > can't give me an appointment until she has consulted with Dr. S.

and

> > he's not in the office until Wednesday. So, she promises to call

> > after talking to him on Wednesday.....strange isn't it? I mean

why

> > didn't she just set up a tentative appointment and then speak to

the

> > good doctor? Really once again left me with a bad taste in my

mouth...

> >

> > I'll keep you apprised.

> >

> >

> >

>

>

>