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Last week I had a doctor appointment.\u00a0 Now, a somewhat consistent annoyance of mine is going through the list… and my list is looooooong, unfortunately… of medications.\u00a0 Do you take this\/that\/this\/that, and on and on.\u00a0 Yes\/yes\/yes\/yes, and on and on.\u00a0 It’s very tedious, and let’s just say that my patience is short for a patient.<\/p>\n
I’m thinking, I’m going to beat this.\u00a0 I start this long ambling monologue about how my sister does the same job, people always say there aren’t any changes, then admit there are, fess up that yes I did do that once, but that yes everything… and I mean everything… is still the same, except this one new prescription, which I produce from my pocket and show them.\u00a0 I’m thinking I was pretty clever.\u00a0 They would know that anyone who thought this through to that extent would obviously know what they’re talking about, and leave me alone.<\/p>\n
*sigh*\u00a0 No.\u00a0 They still had to ask every single medication.\u00a0 She thanked me several times for my patience, but I think she knew I was highly annoyed.\u00a0 (I was annoyed enough that I was only half paying attention and said ‘yes’ to everything, which I’m sure didn’t help.)<\/p>\n
Like I said, my sister has to do this, too.\u00a0 She explained it to me once, and it did make sense.\u00a0 I get it, people are forgetful.\u00a0 Probably liability and health reasons, too, I’m sure.\u00a0 Fast forward to today, and I have another appointment with a different doctor.<\/p>\n
I’m thinking, I’m going to beat this.\u00a0 I got online and went through their “eCheck-In” and confirmed all my personal information and medications.\u00a0 The website said this would speed up the process because all the questions were already done.\u00a0 And, just in case, I took a printed sheet of all my medications and doses with me.<\/p>\n
It didn’t start well.\u00a0 The receptionist started asking my personal info.\u00a0 I interrupted and said I had already done the eCheck-In.\u00a0 She looked on another screen, confirmed that I had, and stopped asking questions.<\/p>\n
After I got called back to see the doctor the nurse starts her usual routine, including verifying medications.\u00a0 \ud83d\ude10\u00a0 I politely… and I was very polite, I think… point out that I went through their eCheck-In and already verified everything.\u00a0 She says she has no way to see that on her computer, so she has to ask anyway.<\/p>\n
Double \ud83d\ude10<\/p>\n
At this point I whip out my handy-dandy paper list and hand it to her.\u00a0 She looks at it, and… proceeds to ask me about every single one as she is comparing my list to her computer.<\/p>\n
*facepalm*<\/p>\n
This is already bad enough.\u00a0 I’m feeling minorly insulted and majorly annoyed.\u00a0 But, now I had one more thing to complain about.\u00a0 Why the #$%! do they promote their eCheck-In when they’re not going to use it, anyway?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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