So I'm having knee surgery tomorrow, on my birthday, and this hospital calls you the day before to tell you the time of your surgery. So since its my leg and not something i can manage with easily around the house like a shoulder I am trying to get all my cleaning and shoping and things done tonight, and very little tomorrow morning. Only problem is they wont tell me my time!
I call them at 11:30, get told to call back at 2, call at 2, get told they will call be back in an hour and a half. So nice of you, I have a meeting at work at 3:30, my mom picks my son up from kindergarden at 3:30, and you wont leave a message.
Remind me why I will be giving you people upwards of $2000 again?
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Remind me why I will be giving you people upwards of $2000 again?
To fix your bum leg.
Now, be a good boy and do as you're told.
Edited, Sep 3rd 2008 11:18am by Tare
What's bred in the bone will not out of the flesh.
MY favorite part of knee surgery is when they all take turns putting an X on the correct knee with magic marker beforehand. "No, no, doctor, you're OTHER left."
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Why didn't they give you an appointment card when you scheduled the surgery?
I live in a small town in Tennessee, and, outside of the actual medical professionals, our hospital is staffed by little old ladies. My husband and I stopped by there to see his grandmother when she was in the hospital, and we practically had to tell her how to look the room number up on her computer.
And they all walk painfully slow. It's best to get directions somewhere than have them guide you there.
I live in a small town in Tennessee, and, outside of the actual medical professionals, our hospital is staffed by little old ladies. My husband and I stopped by there to see his grandmother when she was in the hospital, and we practically had to tell her how to look the room number up on her computer.
And they all walk painfully slow. It's best to get directions somewhere than have them guide you there.
You wouldn't have this sort of a problem with public health care as they'd make the appointment 3-4 months out ahead of time. Mind you, you have to wait 3-4 months, but you do know when it's going to happen.
Donate. One day it could be your family.
An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come. Victor Hugo
An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come. Victor Hugo
Hell my father had to wait years and years before he finally decided to get his hip replaced. At that point I think he'd have been glad to get a 4 month waitlist. Not like he was that motivated to get it fixed in the first place.
I set the basic surgery date up with my dr in the office. Not sure why the time couldn't be set up then, or when i went for the presurgery testing last Friday. Its frustrating because I can't set up my ride to and from the hospital till they give me my time.
apachemech wrote:
Remind me why I will be giving you people upwards of $2000 again?
Belkira wrote:
Wow. Regular ol' Joph fan club in here.
Uglysasquatch, Mercenary Major wrote:
You wouldn't have this sort of a problem with public health care as they'd make the appointment 3-4 months out ahead of time. Mind you, you have to wait 3-4 months, but you do know when it's going to happen.
Well, that and you'd be paying one half to one third as much on health care as the US does. The US could probably save, say, 30% of what we pay now and have the shortest public health care waiting lists in the world.
yossarian wrote:
Uglysasquatch, Mercenary Major wrote:
You wouldn't have this sort of a problem with public health care as they'd make the appointment 3-4 months out ahead of time. Mind you, you have to wait 3-4 months, but you do know when it's going to happen.
Well, that and you'd be paying one half to one third as much on health care as the US does. The US could probably save, say, 30% of what we pay now and have the shortest public health care waiting lists in the world.
It doesn't really work that way though.
King Nobby wrote:
More words please
gbaji wrote:
yossarian wrote:
Uglysasquatch, Mercenary Major wrote:
You wouldn't have this sort of a problem with public health care as they'd make the appointment 3-4 months out ahead of time. Mind you, you have to wait 3-4 months, but you do know when it's going to happen.
Well, that and you'd be paying one half to one third as much on health care as the US does. The US could probably save, say, 30% of what we pay now and have the shortest public health care waiting lists in the world.
It doesn't really work that way though.
In England it's a maximum of 18 Weeks from referral to Treatment, and I pay less TAX for healthcare than you do, and I don't have to pay for insurance like you do.
As an example, in my patch, the average wait for a Total Hip Replacement is 6 weeks.
And by the way, given the age of most THR patients, most need a few weeks to get their BMI & blood pressure within safe tolerances.
Your system sux, but it cracks me up that you resist socialised medicine on financial grounds, but spend more tax dollars than we do. Silly Ame'cuhns.
"I started out with nothin' and I still got most of it left" - Seasick Steve
You don't get the time in advance because they don't know the time in advance. Surgeons set up their own schedules based on availability of bays, who is doing what and frequently they don't have an idea until the close of the O.R. on the previous surgical day. That's why they ask you to call Surgery, or they call you. even so if there is a trauma or urgent procedure they will bump you and it will delay you. Just plan on being gone all day. You'll be incapacitated from anesthesia anyways.
Give them a cell phone and keep it on you on silent, or excuse yourself from the meeting and call in.
Give them a cell phone and keep it on you on silent, or excuse yourself from the meeting and call in.
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