You won't believe this!!!
My Neurosurgeon decided to become a gynocologist!!
Ok, I haven't seen her in almost a year but, couldn't the HMO have warned me???
I went to renew my plavix - and the drug store pharmacist says "your script will expire next month". So I call the neuro's office to renew the prescription (the prescription SHE said I'd have to be on for life!!) and I find out she quit!! Without referring me to anyone in her practice!!
OK - I can deal with that. "Can someone else write my presciption?" I ask with all the sweetness I can muster! and I'm told NO. In my HMO I have to see a neurosurgeon, or at least a neurologist to get a prescription.
Unless I have a referral, the wait is three months to get a freaking appointment!!!! My prescription expires in days!!!
I can't get a referral because "my" doctor no longer practices in "that" area, so I call my Mom's doctor and ask for a favor - (she's a personal "go out to dinner" type friend of my Mom's) and I figured she could write the re-order.
NOT IN MY HMO!
So at this point, I'm crying (emotional lability - I can't get angry normally, I burst into tears instead) and I call Ryan's doctor ( He's a GP, who's known us since Ryan (15) was 3) and HE feels sorry for me. He makes some calls and he gets some guy he went to school with to write a new prescription for three months worth of PLAVIX.
PLAVIX - if it's a mind altering drug - they didn't tell me!!
The HMO makes it so freaking hard to get, you'd think people were standing in line waiting to go on a blood thinner "high"!!!!
I still can't get an appointment with a doctor for a visit in the next three months so i'm doing things the hard way.
1. appointment with Ryan's GP for a check up.
2. referral to an "urgent" care center for an MRI
3. another visit to the GP
4. Referral for "consultation" with a neuro
5. (At this point the neuro better write a script!!!) Consultation
Is this the stupidest thing you ever heard of????
It gets better ... the neuro who wrote the script for Ryan's GP says I shouldn't be on Plavix, I had a bleed not a clot!!!
I can't believe it - can you????
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