19 Sep 06 The Ongoing GP Saga
There’s now a new post category entitled ‘healthcare’ to keep up with the bureaucratic system I’m dealing with here! In my last post I was excited to finally have an appointment with a GP - well it didn’t happen.
I showed up at the ’surgery’ (what’s known as a doctor’s office here) at the scheduled time for my appointment, and waited 25 minutes before my name was called. I walked into the assigned room and sat beside a woman seated at a computer. She entered all the details on the reg form I filled out last week, took my blood pressure and weighed me in. Then she said, “So when you want to make an appointment with a doctor you need to call on a Monday to get an appointment for the following week.” Standard practice at this surgery, apparently. She sent me on my way.
Yesterday morning I called to make an appointment, which meant hitting the redial button about 30 times after a busy signal before connecting through to a human. I am now booked to see an official GP, I hope, for 26 September.
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