Re: Extraction

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In a message dated 5/25/2004 18:05:36 PM Pacific Daylight Time,

MTLamar@... writes:

Never again will I put up with waiting like that,

Nor should you have then Mark!

If more physicians were put in a position to have to have their patients lie

in the back room (taking up space where a procedure should be happening) the

wait will be much less.

Next time ... after 15 minutes, tell the front office staff person that you

must lie down in the back or face throwing up in their waiting room for the

pain. I would suggest that they will choose putting you in a procedure room.

Which, like I say is taking up space for a procedure to be happening which will

not make the dentist happy!

YOU NOR ANY OTHER PATIENT SHOULD BE FORCED TO WAIT for more than 30 minutes

(that is too long too but for the sake of argument lets just say 30 is Max) let

alone 3 frigg'n hours!!

Glad you are doing so well now, however!

Debbi

SoCal EDSers Hostess with the most'est!

Well, ... at least the hostess with the most'est pink flamingos!

(Wink ... wink all you SoCal EDSers!)

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I learned this the hard way too... A few years ago, I broke my pelvis

on a Thursday. The closest emergency room, and therefore the one the

ambulance took me to, wasn't the one my insurance covered, so they

sent me home a few hours later with only crutches and a prescription

for vicodin, no brace or anything (they wouldn't admit me, even

though they had to take me home in an ambulance because I wasn't able

to get in a regular car, but that is a whole other story) and told me

to make an appointment with an orthopedist. The earliest appointment

I could get with the orhto was the following Monday! 4 days with an

unset broken bone in the middle of my body! And then, once I got to

the ortho, I had to wait because they were " squeezing me in. "

Fortunately, after sitting (not a good position with a broken pelvis)

in the waiting room in dire pain I nearly passed out, so that finally

got the ball rolling to get me into a room and examined. From that

point on, I decided that I'd just have to nearly faint whenever the

wait was too long... Fortunately, I've never been put in anything

close to another situation like that!! It is riduculous what some

doctors' offices put their patients through!!!

> Next time ... after 15 minutes, tell the front office staff person

that you

> must lie down in the back or face throwing up in their waiting room

for the

> pain. I would suggest that they will choose putting you in a

procedure room.