Monday, March 23, 2015

Fax?

You know I'm not the one to run to the doctor immediately when I have an "issue". However, today I felt that "it's now enough". So I bit the bullet and called my house doc, explaining that I have a delicate problem and that I found a specialist, but he wouldn't take me on unless I had a recommendation from my house doc.

Had the conversation and he assured me that it wouldn't be a problem to write this paper and send it on to the recommended physician, and after we hung up I had this funny feeling that something weren't right.

It kept on bugging me and it was only hours later I realized what it was. It was my house doc telling me he would "fax it over" to the other doc. Fax? Didn't that disappear in the 90's?

Anyway, I think he probably meant email and as long as the message gets to the right doc I'm not bothered.
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Anonymous said...

Apparently use of faxes is still pretty common by medical peoples here. I also got asked to fax medical records somewhere this week (I know they definitely meant fax because the only contact they gave was a fax number). And I found out that the lab (for blood tests etc) send my Dr paper copies of everything not electronic, and then the receptionist scans them to keep electronic files. Weird!

B

3:27 pm
Witchbitch said...

Very weird! If they are afraid of being hacked they should use snailmail, rather than scanning faxes for electronic files!

4:51 pm

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