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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]That's your right OP. If that's what you want and willing to wait, insist on it. DW is a cardiology NP and had a patient like you. Rather than seeing DW, wanted to wait 6 weeks for a doctor. The idiot died of heart attack while waiting. DW could've saved his life by catching his problems but what can you do. [/quote]

Pretty shocking that you refer to your wife’s deceased patient as, “an idiot.” Such compassion.

Since I assume you heard the tale from her, that is even more appalling.

[b]Another take on this might be that it was highly irresponsible (malpractice?) for the office to put off a patient with a life-threatening condition for six weeks, when all he wanted was to see his doctor. But still they found no way to move up his appointment. 
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Some practices might have felt awful about this turn of events. The incident might have caused them to investigate how the case was handled…but your wife and her colleagues just wrote this poor caller off as “an idiot. “

Please do share the name of the practice  , if you think they operate to such a high standard.[/quote]

yeah, no.  that's not how it works. when you are a patient of the practice you are a patient of the practice, and you need to agree to how they manage cases.  if you don't like it you should find another practice.  But it's simply not a thing to insist on "I want to see the doctor and nothing else is acceptable."  The practice decides how to triage cases.  If this guy had come to his scheduled appt the NP would certainly have been able to coordinate his care and get him what he needed, but the patient refused.  Patients have agency in their care.  This was an unfortunate outcome but hardly the fault of the practice.[/quote]

You don't give up your rights when you walk through the doors of a medical practice. I remember calling a few years ago and asking which doctors were board certified. The receptionist had no idea what that was and said it didn't matter. I told her to put me on hold and the next doctor walking by to ask that doctor if they thought it mattered if they were board certified. Luckily, the doctor walking by was and so I got in to see that doctor. When I spoke to the doctor at then end of the appointment, the doctor was appalled. She was proud she was board certified. 
Now you have to beg just to see a doctor. And you have no idea if the NP would have been able to coordinate care. You then go on to say, "patients have agency", which makes no sense in this practice because they do NOT. According to you patients have no right to see a medical doctor, yet they will get charged the same amount if they see a NP who doesn't have nearly the same amount of training. And to add to the insult, patients aren't even informed upfront on who is going to treat them. As the other person posted, you are an awful human being for calling the deceased patient an idiot. Mortuis nihil nisi bonum.[/quote]

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