Doctor's Appointment, New Job?
I just got hired but I was told I wouldn't be told my schedule until next week. Well next week Monday I have a doctors appointment. If I get the call on Monday to come into work that same day, what should I do? I tried to call the doctors to cancel (Its not an important appointment. Just to see a Dermatologist) but they're not open today, I don't know what their cancellation policies are, and they don't have an answering machine. I don't want my new boss to think I'm not dedicated by saying I can't come in. What should I do if I have to go in close to my appointment time? Thanks in advance!
If you don't confirm a dentist or doctor's appointment, is that the same as canceling it last minute?
Last September I made an appointment for my next dental cleaning for today, and I put it in my calendar of the phone I had at the time. That phone was stolen, so it wasn't on my current calendar, and after six months I forgot about the appointment. Someone from their office called yesterday while I was still at school to confirm, and by the time I could call back they'd already closed for the day. I called this morning and asked to reschedule because I actually had another appointment for that same time period. They said I owed a $60 cancellation fee for canceling with less than a 24 hour notice and would send the bill to my parents. (I'm 17) I thought that since I didn't confirm the appointment it was like I was giving up the spot anyway. In the message she didn't say "remind," she said 'confirm." $60 seems to be really harsh. Is there any way I get out of this fee?
How can I get an appointment with a specialist doctor who is fully booked for the next few months?
Thanks for A2A. Luckily it's pretty simple ... to get an appointment with a Specialist who is fully booked for the next few months you ring up their receptionist today and ask for an appointment in a few months. You then wait a few months and turn up on the day of your appointment. On that day you will indeed have the opportunity to make good your offer to pay.By the way ... DO NOT wait for a few months before you call - hoping that by then their schedule will have cleared and they'll be able to see you any time you want. The problem is not that they are on a three month holiday. The problem is that there are a lot of other new patients who have been waiting a few months for an appointment, current patients who need to be seen regularly and maybe even some appointments set aside in case an emergency arises.Now, there are times where a particular case requires jumping the queue in front of all these people who have been waiting for an appointment for several months. One reason would be that you have a serious and acute medical issue that will not see you survive the time until your appointment. If this is applicable to your case then you should return to your Primary Care doctor and explain the waiting time. The Primary Care doctor may decide your problem is indeed urgent and phone to see if the Specialist has any appointments set aside for such an eventuation. Or they may choose to make use of an alternate Specialist who does have an emergency appointment available or can see you sooner. Or, if it your issue is truly an emergency, they may call you an ambulance and send you to hospital.If the issue is simply that you have a chronic health condition, but are impatient and don't want to wait for several months, then the only polite way to go about it is to call the Specialist's rooms and inform the receptionist that you would be keen to make use of an unused appointment, and can get to the rooms promptly, should anyone cancel at late notice. That said, you also will not be the only person on that list.
Is this right? I was 15 minutes late to my doctors appointment, and they told me I had to reschedule?
I had an obgyn appointment and I was 15 miinutes late. When I got there, the woman at the desk told me that most likely I wasn't gonna be seen that day, so she went back to ask, and then told me I had to reschedule. I still didn't understand why the doctor couldn't see me that day...there's been times when I was 10 minutes late to some doctors appt and they didn't mind, I was still seen that day...