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[quote=Anonymous]DS bumped his head on Monday. Some disorientation, headaches, vomiting, a trip to urgent care followed by the ER, and a clear CT later we were left to go home and told, among other things, to keep him home from school and follow up with his Pediatrician in a day or two.

This is where it gets infuriating. DW lost her job about three months ago and with it our health insurance. In order to have access to health care for DS we started to enroll him in a clinic in our town which specializes in offering assistance to those without insurance. It's not a free clinic associated with a medical center or anything like that. It's a regular doctor's office who is well known for being the best at finding a way to get people access to healthcare. We started the enrollment process with them because that was their advice, filled out some paperwork etc, to see what could be done. Partway through they told us we were eligible for a free insurance program through the state that his old doctor accepts. We called the old doctors office and verified with them that they accept it an he could stay as a patient with the new insurance and never finished the enrollment at the new place. I just called up the office to schedule the followup and was informed me that they listed him as having transferred to the new doctor and they aren't accepting new patients so we cannot be seen there, period. I called the place we started to fill out the paperwork, but they don't have his records and won't see him as a new patient until he has a well visit first, which of course we cannot do because he isn't well.

I called all the other pediatric offices in town and nobody will see a kid without a well check and the place that has those things said we quit and they won't take us back.

So, we have no doctor to follow up with and I’m pissed about the whole situation. I'm going to keep calling pediatric offices until someone takes pity on me or, barring that go back to urgent care on Tuesday. If anyone has a better suggestion I could really use it right now.[/quote]

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