Medical bureaucracy grumble

I called my GP's office to find out what happened to my eye doctor referral--which, please note, I had first asked for in November, and had been told had already been sent.

This morning, after stating what I wanted several times (the official line being "I want to make sure you have my address correct"), I got someone who asked if it was for the ophthalmologist, and that they found he "no longer participates" in my insurance plan. I told her it would have been nice if someone had let me know that, and she said they try to do the referrals all together, were doing them "this week", and hadn't had time to call me.

If that's true, then they lied to me when they said they'd already sent it, and they're ridiculously slow about processing things. Also, I may need to find a new eye doctor, and I really like this one. I say "I may" because I'm going to double-check before I take my doctor's staff's word for anything. (I like my doctor; her staff, much less so.) The insurer's Web site no longer lists my ophthalmologist, but it does list his partner--so I'm wondering if, rather than dropping out of HIP, he has either retired or relocated.

Medical bureaucracy grumble

I called my GP's office to find out what happened to my eye doctor referral--which, please note, I had first asked for in November, and had been told had already been sent.

This morning, after stating what I wanted several times (the official line being "I want to make sure you have my address correct"), I got someone who asked if it was for the ophthalmologist, and that they found he "no longer participates" in my insurance plan. I told her it would have been nice if someone had let me know that, and she said they try to do the referrals all together, were doing them "this week", and hadn't had time to call me.

If that's true, then they lied to me when they said they'd already sent it, and they're ridiculously slow about processing things. Also, I may need to find a new eye doctor, and I really like this one. I say "I may" because I'm going to double-check before I take my doctor's staff's word for anything. (I like my doctor; her staff, much less so.) The insurer's Web site no longer lists my ophthalmologist, but it does list his partner--so I'm wondering if, rather than dropping out of HIP, he has either retired or relocated.

Sense

Various of you have said sensible things in response to my post yesterday.

It's true that I limit who I rant to, and when, and that I try to give good advice if I'm giving advice at all. It's true that I've got some idea of what I can and can't do (bilocation and teleportation not being things we have available), a sense of my priorities, and schedule based in part on that.

The thing is, it's not that I don't think I'm a sensible person--it's that being told I am repeatedly, by people who I also think of as sensible, feels like people repeatedly pointing out that I'm right-handed or a native speaker of English. Yes, I am. So are most of them. But what they're saying is not "Hey, you're right-handed, just like me" (which would be weird already) but "Hey, you're right-handed, how cool!" as if it were something unusual.

I wonder if my friends are giving themselves--yourselves--enough credit for your own intelligence and good judgment. The only sensible thing I can think of that I do and a lot of other people don't is that I don't run for subway trains. I'll run for a once-an-hour commuter rail, or for a train or plane on which I have a ticket and a reservation--though I usually leave enough time that I don't need to, being if anything neurotic about being early--but not for the rush hour A when there's another along in a few minutes.

[I think I need an introspection/self-analysis userpic, or to assign one of my existing ones to that; this is more the relationships icon. Nusuth.]

Sense

Various of you have said sensible things in response to my post yesterday.

It's true that I limit who I rant to, and when, and that I try to give good advice if I'm giving advice at all. It's true that I've got some idea of what I can and can't do (bilocation and teleportation not being things we have available), a sense of my priorities, and schedule based in part on that.

The thing is, it's not that I don't think I'm a sensible person--it's that being told I am repeatedly, by people who I also think of as sensible, feels like people repeatedly pointing out that I'm right-handed or a native speaker of English. Yes, I am. So are most of them. But what they're saying is not "Hey, you're right-handed, just like me" (which would be weird already) but "Hey, you're right-handed, how cool!" as if it were something unusual.

I wonder if my friends are giving themselves--yourselves--enough credit for your own intelligence and good judgment. The only sensible thing I can think of that I do and a lot of other people don't is that I don't run for subway trains. I'll run for a once-an-hour commuter rail, or for a train or plane on which I have a ticket and a reservation--though I usually leave enough time that I don't need to, being if anything neurotic about being early--but not for the rush hour A when there's another along in a few minutes.

[I think I need an introspection/self-analysis userpic, or to assign one of my existing ones to that; this is more the relationships icon. Nusuth.]

Self-selected

I like my social circle: I'm bi and poly, but now that I've stopped dyeing my hair, my "distinguishing characteristic" to you is that I'm sensible.

Self-selected

I like my social circle: I'm bi and poly, but now that I've stopped dyeing my hair, my "distinguishing characteristic" to you is that I'm sensible.