By best friend whom I've known for almost 40 years sometimes takes two weeks or more to reply to e-mails I send him. I think he only checks his e-mail a couple of times a month.
I’m fine if someone doesn’t check their email. But then don’t give out your email address. Give out the contact method that people can actually use to get in touch with you.
We used to have patients get angry at us for not following up with them regarding test results, until we told them that we tried to reach them multiple times but either their voicemail was full or their voicemail was never even set up so we couldn't leave a message.
Yeah, Toronto and Vancouver look a lot like Philly. /s
This is partly based on the HIPAA consent you signed at that office and what it did and didn't authorize them to do. The law does allow messages to be left like "Please call our office at 555-1212" but not "Your cholesterol was 267." Many offices err on the side of privacy and say nothing because even saying "Hi. This is Sue from Dr. Smith's office. Please give us a call back." can reveal to anyone who hears that message that you have been seeing Dr. Smith, which might not be info you want revealed.
And that's fine but he shouldn't be giving his email address out to anyone if that's the case.
All our doctor’s communication is done via MyChart. We either receive a new text message or email that MyChart has a new message.
There are still plenty of independent practices out there that don't have online portals like MyChart. And even those that do still make phone calls. My PCP is on MyChart but when my lab results come in, they call me. I always answer so I don't know if they would leave a message or not if I didn't.
Flip side of that: You arrive at doctor appointment only to be told your appointment was cancelled by the doctor a month ago.
I've heard that before!
true, but for hours on end and able to hear it inside even with doors/windows shut, it is annoying."But dawgs are jest gonna bark."
Potholes in the U.P. of Michigan also get pretty bad once the frost goes out. And now if I'm driving the new wagon, not only do I have to anticipate the potholes and try to avoid them, I have to also remember to signal if I have to cross the white or yellow lines or face the wrath of the Advanced Driver Annoyance Systems and the speakers beeping and the steering wheel trying to keep me between the lines.My recent peeve is getting addressed by a huge road repair crew. A 15 or so mile of road to next town which I frequent is scrped to the bone and getting re paved in bot directions.
Thus freeing many brain and memory cells from having to remeber and anticipate all the potholes to avoid for the past 7 months.
In my CT6 I had to diasable that supervisor for the trips. the other two do not have such supervisory feature. I think I'll keep them.
Lucky you weren't in Texas. (you know what they say about everything being bigger in Texas) One time I was down there a guy died from his injuries a few weeks after he had tried to run out and put his muscle car in the garage and got hit by a softball-sized chunk of ice.
Yeah, I resisted MyChart for a while but eventually figured out it was the best improvement in medicine in a long while. The only issue is that some doctors (offices) don't hold up their end of the MyCHart bargain (aka timely communications). But most do in my experience. It is or can be a great system.
