@drhat77 When my hairdresser gives me a bad color she re-does it for free. Part of the cost of doing business is sometimes a person is unhappy with the service, or a garment doesn’t hold up well and the business has to eat the cost. I once had a ultrasund tech in my GyN office completely forget to count my antral follicles when I was thinking about another invitro cycle. This is unforgivable! A fuck up is another month of waiting. Month month month. Not a day. A month when each month it doesn’t work is another month and fertility cycles can actually easily be two months with cessation of menstrual cycles and then the drugs to grow multiple ovums.
So, when I found out she screwed it up, I called the office to come in ASAP to have it redone, and I told them to make sure they wouldn’t charge me, and the fucking bitch argued with me that I have to pay. Sorry to swear so much, but incompetence and having zero empathy or brain power to see the logic in repeating the 5 minute diagnostic is so outrageous and upsetting to me I can hardly think straight. Honestly, it has shortened my life and left me childless dealing woth people like this in the medical profession. I do believe if I had been talking directly to my doctor she would have done it for me no question for no fee, I hope that would also mean not filing to my insurance as well. But, all those GD gatekeepers in the doctors office preventing us from speaking to doctors make it stressful to even insist on speaking to the doctor. It is absolutely horrible. I do have a couple doctors who will speak to me, they would happily say I don’t bother them all the time. Sometimes I don’t ask to speak to them for years on the phone. I really hate being treated like I am the pain in the ass and not willing to pay when they have fucked up. They should be apologetic and accomodating if they had any sense or integrity. I know a little more about medicine than the average person, and I know a lot about things I have done routinely, because I have them done routinely.
Oh, and my credit is over 700 and my husband’s is over 800. I pay my bills. I once sent my credit report to the doctor who was being awful to me, well the billing people, and to the better business bureau. First time I have ever contacted the BBB, that office had one other complaint on record and it was also regarding billing. I asked to speak to the doctor multiple times and they would not let me, this was before it got so blown out of proportion that I wrote BBB.