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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

This is incorrect. “The practice” does not set the standard of care. [/quote]

Not sure what you think “ standard of care” means. Patient refused appointment. Had a deadly outcome. [b]The practice had no obligation to let him pick his provider, [/b]they gave him an inroad to care and he declined. As unfortunate as this situation is, nobody who knows the first thing about healthcare would call this “malpractice.”[/quote]

Says who?[/quote]

Says anyone who knows anything about practice management.  Says anyone who had read the "patient bill of rights."  It's not Wal-Mart, you're entering a practice as a patient and should be made aware of how they triage visits and to whom so you can go elsewhere if it doesn't suit you. That's totally legit. But you have no "right" to any particular doctor.  I mean try it, tell the risk and quality management director that you have the right to a certain doctor and see what they tell you.[/quote]

Tell the jury that “the practice” didn’t abandon a patient when they sought to see a physician with whom they had an established relationship, were refused, and were not warned of the dangers of delaying attention. Go ahead. Tell them that. [/quote]

The midlevels don’t care. They disappear when the servers come knocking. It’s the doctors who are ultimately liable. [/quote]

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