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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If they won't let you take an uber than they must arrange for medical transport. It's typically an ambulance without lights on. They required it for my adult son, and coded it as a medical necessity.[/quote]

Lol, no. Not for a scheduled outpatient colonoscopy. It's not their responsibility, it's the patient's. If your unwilling to expand into your social circle, and unwilling to reschedule, then maybe you can hire an aide from a private duty nursing agency.[/quote]

Just walk out of the hospital with your cell phone and call an Uber or Lyft from a block away. It’s a hospital not a prison. They can’t hold you hostage.

If you know when you are going to be released, you can prearrange an Uber or Lyft. I do this often for airport rides, too.

OP, I am seen as the Strong One in my circle of friends and family. They call me to ask for favors but if I ask them for a similar one, they are too busy. You can’t force people to give a damn but Lyft drivers are some of the kindest people I know. I’ve taken them out of Hopkins Bayview before easily.[/quote]

I don't know how it will work in OP's case, but the last time I did this for a relative, I'm pretty sure they checked that I was there before they started the procedure. [/quote]

Colonoscopies, you don't have to physically be in the building, but you do have to check in.  I have a single friend and I periodically give him rides to various services where he had to have another individual (like his colonoscopy and an eye appointment where his eyes were dilated).  I can usually go in with him and leave my cell phone number with the staff.  The colonoscopy was about 5 minutes from my office, so I went to the office and worked and they called me after he had woken up and when he was getting dressed asking me to be back in about 15 min.

But they will not release the patient without someone to escort them home.

And they will not start the procedure unless there is someone who has agreed to come, sign the patient out and guarantee them an escort home.  If OP cannot find someone to escort or a service, then she will have to reschedule.[/quote]

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