When you go to the doctor or hospital around here, they ask if you have insurance and then take our insurance card and photo-copy it. Without fail, there's a problem with the bill and what's the first thing they ask you for over the phone? The information off of your insurance card!
Do they photo-copy it and then make paper airplanes? Why isn't this information in the systems or at least in their files? They must think that the additional stress and bother is integral to the healing process.
Posted by bbarton at May 2, 2005 06:46 AMI see your WTH and raise it to a WTF!
Posted by: Bob on May 2, 2005 12:01 PM(pulls out list of hospital stupidity stories, considers dearth of space in comment box, reconsiders)
Yeah.
I thought it was cute when they had to keep checking and rechecking mom and newborn's id bracelets to figure out that we actually belonged to each other. This, after isolating us in the same room for 48 hours.
Next, we'll have to swipe a curfew card to go to the loo.
Beautiful Wife saw the same nurses for months during chemo and they still checked her id bracelet and asked her birthday. Common sense has been replaced with protecting themselves from malpractice suits instead.
Posted by: Bob on May 2, 2005 01:13 PMI hope Beautiful Wife recovered nicely from chemo; my stepdad went through it three times and i swear the docs weren't satisfied until they killed him with it. Just another case of 'the cure has worked, but the patient is dead, doctor'.
Fortunately, Beautiful Wife's experience seems to have fared considerably better?
Posted by: anan on May 3, 2005 01:52 AMSo far, so good, Anan. She has some tests at the end of this month and then we discuss the next phase of her treatment, radiation.
Posted by: Bob on May 3, 2005 07:25 AMoh no, not the radiation.
tell her to confess now, before the head inquisitor comes back.
Posted by: anan on May 3, 2005 09:07 AM
Yeah, WTH?! They do that same thing every time we go for an office visit too. Uh, hellloo? It's the same damn card you copied the last time.
Posted by: lu on May 2, 2005 11:33 AM