Site News: Blogging will be light (thanks crappy PPO!)
I’ve been under the weather. In fact, I had to go to the doctor. I spent 2 hours 45 minutes at St. Francis Prompt Care. The doctor was in the same room for me for a grand total of five minutes (thanks crappy PPO!). And isn’t there a rule about sticking a patient into a windowless exam room and not checking their well-being for 45 minutes? And I would like to thank the OSF employee who cooked his/her lunch in a microwave while I was waiting. I fasted in anticipation of tests that never happened (thanks crappy PPO!) and the hunger pangs were quite an interesting experience.
I’ve been treated with more compassion about my well-being by jail guards. But then, jail guards face consequences when people they are watching keel over and die.
Anyway, I still feel like crap. I am insufficiently medicated (thanks crappy PPO!) and I really don’t feel like blogging and I probably won’t tomorrow either.
Thanks commenters for making the site so lively today.
March 3rd, 2009 at 8:09 am
Hope you feel better. If its what the rest of the world seems to have not much you can do about it except suffer through it. Get well soon
March 3rd, 2009 at 8:17 am
The last time I was at their plce on Glen Ave., they gave me a cardiogram, said everything was fine and let me go; next day the technician called and said she had the connectors on backwards and the test was invalid and wanted me to come in again. No thanks.
March 3rd, 2009 at 8:40 am
I love OSF and i have always been treated very well there . I had a double knee replacement there and was treated like a queen. Working on the board at Heartland Clinic, you get to see how much OSF does for all of Peoria and beyond. Great place and awesome Drs. Hope you feel better fast Billy. Curl up and get some much needed sleep.
March 3rd, 2009 at 9:05 am
We have never had problems with Prompt Care. The only troubling aspect of it, is that General Practitioners use it to push patients away who they don’t have time to see. It isn’t the GPs fault per se. They have these awful contracts with their ‘back office’ supporters which mandate they have to see X patients a day leaving little time for the ‘emergency’.
So if your kid has an ear infection… and no once canceled that day, they are too booked up to see you, so they tell you to go to Prompt Care or the ER.
When I was a kid… your GP was where you went for the not so dangerous emergencies, stitches, ear infections, high fevers, and even simple broken bones if the office had its own X-ray. Nowadays.. are you kidding.
March 5th, 2009 at 8:14 am
Just noticed your post about being ill. Ms. Kelly wishes you a speedy recovery and all her good will. I just with you would quit whining and get back to business. *grin*
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