i'm a woman with a voice, hear me roar.
03/30/2009 07:37 p.m.
Tracey Paradiso told me that when it comes to anything medical, women need to be their own advocates. Joan Serratelli also stated that doctors and such work for us. We pay them. So with those 2 valuable pieces of information, this is how the phone call to my doctor's office went today.

nurse: Family practice, can I help you?
me: Yes, I'm a patient of Dr. Steineck and I was in the ER Friday night and was wondering if he could give me a call whenever he's available to do so.
nurse: OK, don't you need to schedule a follow up?
me: No, not really.
nurse: OK, then what's your question? I can pull the ER report and he can look at it and give you an answer and a nurse can call you back.
me: Well, I didn't go to the ER your office is affiliated because I went a few weeks ago and they didn't do anything for me.
nurse: See, the doctor's don't really like it when patients call and leave messages asking them to return their phone calls.
me: No offense, but I don't really care what he likes and what he doesn't like. He works for me, I pay him.

She put me on hold, came back, gathered the rest of my info and said he'll be in tomorrow afternoon.

I win.