I kinda miss Kaiser.  That may be surprising to hear as I know some people strongly dislike Kaiser.  But my recent experience with Sharp Rees-Stealy hasn’t been impressive or even good to say the least.

Perhaps when I switched insurances, I should have just gone out to some random doctors I could find, but I figured being within some type of “network” like Sharp would be beneficial.  It would be similar to Kaiser and Kaiser wasn’t all too bad with the exception of 1 or 2 instances.  So I picked Sharp to deal with my hypocrappo and I picked them for my injuries.

This week, my long awaited sports med appointment arrived.  They told me to arrive 20 min before my appointment to get xrays done.  My appointment was at 9 so I arrived at 8:30am.  30 minutes early.  I waited and waited.  They were backed up.  I didn’t get called in until 9:30am.  I saw the doctor and he was like, where are the xrays?  I’m like, yeah, I thought I was getting them today.  He’s like, I told the front desk to make sure to tell the patients to arrive early for the xrays.  “This keeps happening.”  Then I put the pieces together.  Yes, their front desk had indeed been telling people to come early for xrays and yes people were even arriving early for that.  What they neglected to tell the patients was that they needed to go SOMEWHERE ELSE to get the xrays done!  Not in the same place.  The whole time I had thought it was all together.  They would call me in 20 minutes earlier to do my xrays, then I would see the doc.  Apparently I  had to go on my own over to radiology and do the xrays.  That’s a very important piece of information they neglected to tell me.  What the heck.  The doc basically tells me he can’t really do much since he doesn’t have the xrays as a baseline.  He still suspects runner’s knee and doesn’t think an MRI is necessary.  He tells me I can go take the xrays now and wait to see him – though obviously he has appointments booked – that I can wait for someone to cancel.  Sorry doc, I have to work, I don’t have all day to sit around.  He told me I could schedule another appointment.  I was like, it took me a month to get this appointment, is it going to take another month?  He’s like, well thanksgiving is next week, then I’m on vacation the following week – so yeah.

SIGH.  What a waste of my freaking time and money.  After waiting a month for this appointment – I don’t get a whole lot out of it.  I still have to go back.  My appointment is in 3 weeks.  Not as bad as I thought but still.  I made another PT appointment so I’m back to that.

Got my xrays done today.  Funny thing is I could have gotten them done at anytime in the past month but they neglected to tell me that.

Sharp, you suck.

The only redemption you had was from this morning when you saw me and took my xrays before you opened.  That was greatly appreciated.  I guess I just have to wait 3 weeks to see the doc again and get the results now.

I think I know how to heal myself anyway – the knee at least.