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Medical Forum / Diseases and Disorders / Hepatitis / February 2004*%$#! Dr. Gitlin!
Man, I am SO angry at his office. I have an appointment March 4. I was told by my BCLD's office if I didn't receive a package from the by February 12, I should contact Dr. Gitlin's office (he's the one who's running this clinical trial). Contact his office?! Ha! All I've done since the 12th is punch buttons and leave messages. Every call is long distance, and I've used almost all of a 60-minute phone card calling from work (that's how long it takes to punch all those buttons and listen to the messages). Yesterday I called BCLD's office and, um, expressed my frustration, and she said, "Oh, don't fel bad. Dr. Gitlin never calls us back either." And this is supposed to be one of the foremost hepologists in the country?????? I'm getting less and less enthusiastic about taking a day off from work and driving 80 miles to Atlanta, because if they're this screwed up, they may have forgotten I'm supposed to be there. Damned arrogant doctors! Hang in there, Thipper. The best things in life are difficult. Stay after it! Elmo http://community.webtv.net/elmoemerson/DocElmosHepFile | Hang in there, Thipper. The best things in life are difficult. Stay | after it! | Elmo I just called again and told them I wouldn't be holding my breath waiting for a return call. :-) We're snowed in today so I can spend the whole day annoying the hell out of them. > | Hang in there, Thipper. The best things in life are difficult. Stay > | after it! [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > for a return call. :-) We're snowed in today so I can spend the whole day > annoying the hell out of them. WEll after pouring rain yesterday, we have glorious sunshine. I spent all day yesterday with sears maintenance crew, all because my lawnmower wouldn't start the day before. I got in the phone and though I had in home service warranty on it, and decided to make appointments for all my other appliances. So Fridge was checked out and a bulb replaced by one man, who couldn't do the oven. He helped me load the lawnmower in my pick-up though. Then the other man ws running behind schedule and when he finally arrived it was raining hard. He did the oven, the washer and dryer. When I walked him outside to the gate, we noticed that the cover over the pickup had blown nearly over and into the side of the truck. Slight scratch noted on the passenger door. He helped me get it back in the little things that hold it into the ground. I didn't lose any trees this time. Keeping fingers crossed. Then I drove down to the repair shop with the lawnmower and dropped it off. I can't pick it up until March 4th. So what did they do to you? I tried to thread back but the message isn't there and elmo doesn't include the entire post in his responses, so I have no clue what is going on. Something about not getting started as quickly as you first thought, is what I think it is about but not sure. Hoof in sunshiny California. Whoops spoke too soon, we are expecting more rain later on today and it is 48 degrees outside. | WEll after pouring rain yesterday, we have glorious sunshine. | I spent all day yesterday with sears maintenance crew, all because my [quoted text clipped - 21 lines] | Whoops spoke too soon, we are expecting more rain later on today and it | is 48 degrees outside. It WAS in the 60's here, glorious sping weather. Started snowing sometime last night and since we're not used to it, we consider ourselves socked in. I've tried and tried to call my boss, and the switchboard finally told me *nobody* made it down to the school today. I haven't seen any cars/trucks on my road at all. It's coming down like crazy right now. Thank heavens I had new heat/air put in last week. This clinical trial dr. has me climbing the walls. I was told I'd receive a package from them and to call if it didn't come. Well, I've called and called and called and called and called, and they don't call back. I even called my doc in Athens and had THEM call, and Gitlin's office didn't return theirs either. I'm getting frustrated--all the calls are long distance, and they all take forever because I punch numbers and listen to messages. So, I've taken to leaving sarcastic messages because I don't expect them to call me back anyway. This morning I told them I wasn't going to hold my breathe waiting. I'm working on the next sarcastic message next--something like "There's no sense in saying this because you aren't going to call me, but I'm a nice person and I don't want to inconvenience you the way you've inconvenienced me, blah blah blah...." > | WEll after pouring rain yesterday, we have glorious sunshine. > | I spent all day yesterday with sears maintenance crew, all because my [quoted text clipped - 28 lines] > on my road at all. It's coming down like crazy right now. Thank heavens I > had new heat/air put in last week. Funny thing is that back there you have no clue about fog. Even my daughter had a huge laugh at one of her in-laws who visited here and ran off the road cuz he could see the road in front of him. He wasn't in the worse of it, Tule fog is the worst, sometimes it gets so bad here you can't see the front of your vehicle. No joke. It is 10:05 here and we have creeped up to a whopping 51 degrees. > This clinical trial dr. has me climbing the walls. I was told I'd receive a > package from them and to call if it didn't come. Well, I've called and > called and called and called and called, and they don't call back. I even > called my doc in Athens and had THEM call, and Gitlin's office didn't return > theirs either. Was it because of the holidays last week, Presidents days? Maybe it will still arrive. >I'm getting frustrated--all the calls are long distance, I switched my local carrier from PacBell now SBC, to ATT Local. I get statewide calling for $10.00 per month, and no extra charges. I don't know if it is available in all states though, you would have to check. It is saving me a lot of money when I am selling doggins in northern and southern calif. I can even call a county away and not be charged. I love it. Beats paying toll calls and long distance in-state calls. > and > they all take forever because I punch numbers and listen to messages. I hate voice mail too, what I hate most is that once you go through their voice mail system and finally get a real person on the other end of the line, they tell you to hold for a minute while they speak to their supervisor and then you have to go through the entire voice messaging system and restate your problem to a new person who puts you on hold and then you cycle trough their system again and again... > So, > I've taken to leaving sarcastic messages because I don't expect them to call > me back anyway. This morning I told them I wasn't going to hold my breathe > waiting. Calm down madam, that isn't going to win you any brownie points at the study center. I'm working on the next sarcastic message next--something like > "There's no sense in saying this because you aren't going to call me, but > I'm a nice person and I don't want to inconvenience you the way you've > inconvenienced me, blah blah blah...." Well you are not as bad as I am about getting totally frustrated, so maybe that one will work. You could always leave the message for them to refer to your other message for a complete explanation of the call. I have done this sometimes, the problem is that they are not taking notes like they are supposed to be in all cases. Some do and some don't. the ones that don't I never catch their name, so i can't blacklist them. | Funny thing is that back there you have no clue about fog. Even my | daughter had a huge laugh at one of her in-laws who visited here and ran | off the road cuz he could see the road in front of him. | He wasn't in the worse of it, Tule fog is the worst, sometimes it gets | so bad here you can't see the front of your vehicle. No joke. | It is 10:05 here and we have creeped up to a whopping 51 degrees. Yes, I know about fog, Hoof--I grew up outside of Seattle/Tacoma. We used to call them "pea-soupers." There were times we couldn't even see the hood ornament on the car. When I was a kid, we had a horrible accident right in front of my house--some hunters ran the stop sign on the corner (couldn't see it), hit another car, that car rolled, and it killed a neighbor boy who was waiting for the schoolbus. His sister was severely injured. If I hadn't changed schools that year, I'd have been out there too. | Was it because of the holidays last week, Presidents days? Maybe it | will still arrive. It has nothing to do with any holidays and everything to do with incompetence. | You could always leave the message for them to refer to your other | message for a complete explanation of the call. | I have done this sometimes, the problem is that they are not taking | notes like they are supposed to be in all cases. Some do and some | don't. the ones that don't I never catch their name, so i can't | blacklist them. I'm a lot calmer now. Instead of punching all the right buttons to get to Dr. Gitlin's office, I punched some other (wrong) buttons and actually got a warm body (shock). She was extremely nice (after I apologized for venting my frustration), verified the appointment for me, and promised the package would go out *today.* > | Funny thing is that back there you have no clue about fog. Even my > | daughter had a huge laugh at one of her in-laws who visited here and ran [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > > Yes, I know about fog, Hoof--I grew up outside of Seattle/Tacoma. I had a couple here last year to pick up a couple of pups who were from the Seattle area in Washington State and they came down in the fog, got lost. They were definitely not used to what we get around here. They had not seen anything like this and it wasn't our worst fog they were driving in. > We used > to call them "pea-soupers." There were times we couldn't even see the hood [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > was waiting for the schoolbus. His sister was severely injured. If I > hadn't changed schools that year, I'd have been out there too. I hate those. I lived on a road that ran up to the Indian Res. there was a really sharp 90 degree turn, hardly anyone could make it. Lucky we weren't located in front of the turn, but someone else was. They put up boulders so the drunks wouldn't run into their abode. > | Was it because of the holidays last week, Presidents days? Maybe it > | will still arrive. [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] > my frustration), verified the appointment for me, and promised the package > would go out *today.* I always try to skip to the Zero, or sometimes I use the number 9 depends, sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't work. Another tactic I use is to pretend I don't have a push button phone. I just wait for someone to come on the other end of the line and pretend I have a rotary phone. congrats on getting through. Hoof Re: *%$#! Dr. Gitlin! Group: alt.support.hepatitis-c Date: Thu, Feb 26, 2004, 1:02pm From: me@privacy.net (Thip) "HoofPrints" <equsphotogphr@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:403E126E.DC07EE4B@hotmail.com... | WEll after pouring rain yesterday, we have glorious sunshine. | I spent all day yesterday with sears maintenance crew, all because my | lawnmower wouldn't start the day before. | I got in the phone and though I had in home service warranty on it, and | decided to make appointments for all my other appliances. | So Fridge was checked out and a bulb replaced by one man, who couldn't | do the oven. He helped me load the lawnmower in my pick-up though. | Then the other man ws running behind schedule and when he finally | arrived it was raining hard. He did the oven, the washer and dryer. | When I walked him outside to the gate, we noticed that the cover over | the pickup had blown nearly over and into the side of the truck. Slight | scratch noted on the passenger door. He helped me get it back in the | little things that hold it into the ground. I didn't lose any trees | this time. Keeping fingers crossed. Then I drove down to the repair | shop with the lawnmower and dropped it off. I can't pick it up until | March 4th. | So what did they do to you? I tried to thread back but the message isn't | there and elmo doesn't include the entire post in his responses, so I | have no clue what is going on. Something about not getting started as | quickly as you first thought, is what I think it is about but not sure. | Hoof in sunshiny California. | Whoops spoke too soon, we are expecting more rain later on today and it | is 48 degrees outside. It WAS in the 60's here, glorious sping weather. Started snowing sometime last night and since we're not used to it, we consider ourselves socked in. I've tried and tried to call my boss, and the switchboard finally told me *nobody* made it down to the school today. I haven't seen any cars/trucks on my road at all. It's coming down like crazy right now. Thank heavens I had new heat/air put in last week. This clinical trial dr. has me climbing the walls. I was told I'd receive a package from them and to call if it didn't come. Well, I've called and called and called and called and called, and they don't call back. I even called my doc in Athens and had THEM call, and Gitlin's office didn't return theirs either. I'm getting frustrated--all the calls are long distance, and they all take forever because I punch numbers and listen to messages. So, I've taken to leaving sarcastic messages because I don't expect them to call me back anyway. This morning I told them I wasn't going to hold my breathe waiting. I'm working on the next sarcastic message next--something like "There's no sense in saying this because you aren't going to call me, but I'm a nice person and I don't want to inconvenience you the way you've inconvenienced me, blah blah blah...." //////////////// ahahahahahaha!!!!!!!! Call up and leave a message on his machine saying that "this is your girlfriend calling......I'm pregnant and I really NEED to talk to you right away." Elmo http://community.webtv.net/elmoemerson/DocElmosHepFile Arrogant puts Dr. Gitlin's attitude lightly. :) He is a crusty ole cuss. > Man, I am SO angry at his office. I have an appointment March 4. I was > told by my BCLD's office if I didn't receive a package from the by February [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > driving 80 miles to Atlanta, because if they're this screwed up, they may > have forgotten I'm supposed to be there. Damned arrogant doctors! | Arrogant puts Dr. Gitlin's attitude lightly. :) | He is a crusty ole cuss. Do you know him? What should I expect? He is supposed to be a very good Hepatologist but I needed a transplant. I left him and went to Emory. You can't get a transplant at Crawford Long. He gave me a upper GI once without fully putting me under. I remember him shoving that fire hose down my throat and the nurse telling him that I wasn't under. He didn't stop. I don't think he was very interested in my comfort as a patient. I once asked for medicine for itching and he said to tough it out. I didn't care for him at all. > | Arrogant puts Dr. Gitlin's attitude lightly. :) > | He is a crusty ole cuss. > | > Do you know him? What should I expect? From : "Thip" <me@privacy.net> Message-ID : <c1kl3j$1jdtst$1@ID-112650.news.uni-berlin.de> >Man, I am SO angry at his office Well stoopid, phone him and tell him/her/it. Why are you wasting bandwidth in this valuable internet support forum with your self-indulgent wish-wash huh ? Next time try phoning St Vincent de Pauls instead.. *They care* Professeur Von TwoSteps If f(x)=y, x is the independent variable |
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