Posted by fallsfall on February 18, 2005, at 17:38:52
In reply to More Trouble Than It's Worth?, posted by Miss Honeychurch on February 18, 2005, at 10:18:22
>I mean, aren't physicians really busy? Why on earth would she take the time to call my T?
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> And wouldn't there be major phone tag involved? And do I call her office and actually ask to talk to this OBGYN? I can just imagine the eyerolling on her side as I take up her valuable time describing my phobia and could she pretty please call my therapist???It will probably save your OBGYN time in the longrun if she knows what your story is before hand. I think that what doctors often do is that they have certain times during the day when they aren't seeing patients (before the day starts, lunch, after the last patient, and potentially regularly scheduled time when they have no appointments for returning phone calls etc.). What I have seen happen is that one doctor calls the other to find out what times the other is available, and then arranges to call during one of those times. It is almost like they make an appointment to have a phone call.
Like when my therapist wanted to talk to my pdoc, my pdoc said that he is available 12 - 1 every day except Wednesday. So, even if my therapist had appointments all day, he could call in the 10 minutes between appointments that falls between 12 and 1.
I would encourage you to let them talk.
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