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In response to "Free healthcare "access for all" sounds great and makes people sleep better at night but geez is the system crappy. " by James Bond (aka Igor)

I have insurance and it took me three weeks to get an endoscopy and colonoscopy which I had yesterday.

Posted by Bacon (aka redmond) Jul 27 '13, 21:10

You are right the biopsy will be back in a week.

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I feel like if you really wanted it faster you can just call around the GI docs and get one faster. -- nm - James Bond (aka Igor) Jul 27, 21:19 7
- I got a request from my primary care and the soonest one I could find was 3 weeks. I had abnormal blood work and still couldn't get it faster. -- nm - Bacon Jul 27, 21:20 6
  - Abnormal blood work as in anemia? -- nm - James Bond (aka Igor) Jul 27, 21:22 5
    - Yeah, he thought I might have bleeding in my large intestine or cancer. - Bacon Jul 27, 21:24 4
      - What was your Hemoglobin? -- nm - James Bond (aka Igor) Jul 27, 21:26 1
        
        I don't remember, and like a dork I didn't ask for the blood work results. But it was low enough for the doctor to order the two tests -- nm - Bacon Jul 27, 21:27
      - My Mom also has many polyps in her stomach so it's probably genetic. Her's don't bleed though. -- nm - Bacon Jul 27, 21:25 1
        
        I got a nice set of pictures of mine too. -- nm - Bacon Jul 27, 21:26
Ouch. In several ways. - Beryllium Jul 27, 21:13 3
- The endoscopy/colonoscapy was a breeze, the 36 hour prep was the only bad part. -- nm - Bacon Jul 27, 21:15 2
  - Wait.. 36 hour prep? WTF. My inpatients get about 12-16 hours of prep. - James Bond (aka Igor) Jul 27, 21:20 1
    - The bad prep is 22 hours yes. I added the can't eat seeds, nuts, multigrains etc into that prep time -- nm - Bacon Jul 27, 21:22
that was the first appointment available. -- nm - Bacon Jul 27, 21:11

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I have insurance and it took me three weeks to get an endoscopy and colonoscopy which I had yesterday.

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