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I'll take over for Lynn with my rant. I could not believe my ears last Friday when I called the surgeons office after not hearing from them for weeks (they never call me, I have to keep calling them!) After collecting the medical records they requested and personally sending some of them myself from the copies I keep, the surgeons assistant told me that nothing can be done until they have all the records. These are the same records that a week earlier, she told me she had and were going out to Dr. Patrick McCarthy at Northwestern Memorial to review (so we can finally set up a consultation which is long overdue). And oh, by the way, they are handing me off to another surgeon, S. Chris Malaisrie at Northwestern, who "specializes" in aortic surgery. I'll go back to the drawing board and check into his background and references now. It looks like he was at Baylor and Stanford. So now I write this stinging letter to my cardiologist telling him that I had enough of this crap. Get on the phone and find out WHAT they need, HOW to get it there and give me the low down on why I am being traded off like a bad baseball card! If in the meantime, while the logistics are being worked out, my aorta pops from the my anger, I told my wife to kick some booty. I know it will be some time before I will be able to get in to get this fixed AFTER I finally get to see someone. So this waste of time and seemingly inept clerical help really is frustrating (so much for the "positive" side of me- Aaron!)
Has anyone had like frustrations in their experience with surgeons, their assistants, getting the right records to the right place at the right time or being TRADED off to other surgeons or medical professionals? Anyone with any comments or experiences with Dr. Malaisrie? I'm sure he is a fine surgeon. He's just not the guy I was referred to nor the reputation of Dr. McCarthy. Last weekend was a real bummer after hearing this. Its been over a month now since I've been told to get in to see the surgeon.
Has anyone had like frustrations in their experience with surgeons, their assistants, getting the right records to the right place at the right time or being TRADED off to other surgeons or medical professionals? Anyone with any comments or experiences with Dr. Malaisrie? I'm sure he is a fine surgeon. He's just not the guy I was referred to nor the reputation of Dr. McCarthy. Last weekend was a real bummer after hearing this. Its been over a month now since I've been told to get in to see the surgeon.