windchymes
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ORIGINAL: LafayetteLady will start to see someone in the mirror who didn't give up. No decent doctor doesn't have someone on call 24 hours. No, you won't get a dermatologist orpodiatrist, but a neurologist or orthopedist? They are on call and if they aren't, switch doctors. If you can't get someone you go to the ER, and they will wake the doctor up since he/she is your doctor of record. This emailing them and not being able to call after hours is bullshit laziness on the part of the doctor. I rarely will even leave my doctors voicemail. I leave a message with a living, breathing human being and if they transfer me to voicemail, I hang up and call back. Actually, she's correct here. With my job, I have to call a lot of doctor's offices and many times I get their answering recording that says, "The office is currently closed. Please call back during regular business hours which are.....blah blah blah. If this is a true emergency, hang up and call 911 or go to the nearest emergency room." Unless she's an established patient with a neurologist or orthopedist who has given her permission to call after hours, they'd expect her to go to an ER to be evaluated and ER staff would call which ever neuro or ortho who is on-call. One exception is for those who pay exhorbitant fees every month to their doctor for "concierge" service where the doctor gives them a special direct cell phone number where they, but only they, may call them whenever they want. In many hospitals, your regular doctor doesn't even make regular hospital rounds like they used to. They now have full-time staff "hospitalists" who see the patients who are actually inpatients and act as a liason with your primary physician. There are exceptions, but for the most part, with younger doctors, this has become the protocol now. Most doctors just aren't on-call 24/7/365 anymore unless they choose to be. And even if they do take your call, they still most likely are going to tell you to go to the emergency room or call the office in the morning to make an appointment.
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