As Diana often mentions...

[Spiky Bugger]

...by definition, half of the population has an IQ at or below normal.

And today, I had to deal with most of them.


I spent more time than I cared to spend on the phone with a woman who REALLY thought she needed my DOB.

Me: I have an appointment with Dr. Whozitz on Wednesday, but I need to reschedule. HOWEVER, it is not a medical appointment...it is a "meet and greet" for her new practice.

Her: What's your date of birth?

Me: Why?

Her: To cancel your appointment I need your date of birth.

Me: And when I give you my DOB, you're going to enter that info into the computer to check my appointment, right?

Her : Yes...so what is your date of birth?

Me: Because I do not have a MEDICAL appointment, I have never given anyone at your office my date of birth, or my insurance info or even my full name...so you will not find it in your computer.

Her: Yes! I KNOW you haven't said your date of birth...so I need it now.

Me: Can you transfer me to someone who might talk to me without knowing when I was born...a supervisor maybe?



Credit where credit is due...she got me to someone with a brain.

 

[southernlady]

They walk among us!

 

[jillc]

They totally do. When I was enquiring about self-pay surgery, I called a few offices. I had a couple of conversations like that. Me - "I'd like to have the price for a self pay revision surgery from a VBG to DS"
Reception/Assistant - "Who are you insured with?"
Me - "It's self pay. I'm from Canada."
Reception/Assistant - "And you don't have insurance?"
And it went round and round.

It reminds me of the movie Idiocracy. "It's got electrolytes."

 

[Sheanie]

OMG, @jillc , I LOVED the movie Idiocracy. I can sit and watch that over and over.

This post reminds me of when I was having babies. I never allowed them to do a pap smear when I already was pregnant. Nobody ever understood why I would do that. Finally, I got pissed off enough during my second pregnancy that I actually fired my OBGYN over it. I told him I was 3 or 4 steps ahead of him. He got condescending and rude, so I walked out. Asked me where I got MY medical degree.

Decades later, my daughter had a pap come back suspicious. Idiot PCP called her (a 16 year old girl) and mentioned the word "cancer". ******* idiot. I took her in, had said PCP repeat two more paps, sending them off to SEPARATE labs this time. They both came back normal. She would have done a cervical cone biopsy on a 16 year old, which is exactly what they would have done on a pregnant woman. That can cause spontaneous abortion. Not to mention, the NEXT step after the biopsy is to treat the "cancer". That involves terminating the pregnancy. Which was my whole point in "being 3 or 4 steps ahead" of my OBGYN decades earlier. Back then, nobody told us the risks. They just dictated treatment.

 

[k9ophile]

It wasn't a doctor's office, yet my encounter with the dumb today was pretty ridiculous. I put 17 items on the counter at Office Max. The clerk asked me if I needed any of them bagged. Um, yes, all of them.

 

[jillc]

Yep, me too, @Sheanie - love Idiocracy. Hits too close to home sometimes though

 

[JackieOnLine]

sometimes I'm the idiot so I try to be pleasant to make up for it.

 

[Spiky Bugger]

OMG, @jillc , I LOVED the movie Idiocracy. I can sit and watch that over and over.

This post reminds me of when I was having babies. I never allowed them to do a pap smear when I already was pregnant. Nobody ever understood why I would do that. Finally, I got pissed off enough during my second pregnancy that I actually fired my OBGYN over it. I told him I was 3 or 4 steps ahead of him. He got condescending and rude, so I walked out. Asked me where I got MY medical degree.

Decades later, my daughter had a pap come back suspicious. Idiot PCP called her (a 16 year old girl) and mentioned the word "cancer". ******* idiot. I took her in, had said PCP repeat two more paps, sending them off to SEPARATE labs this time. They both came back normal. She would have done a cervical cone biopsy on a 16 year old, which is exactly what they would have done on a pregnant woman. That can cause spontaneous abortion. Not to mention, the NEXT step after the biopsy is to treat the "cancer". That involves terminating the pregnancy. Which was my whole point in "being 3 or 4 steps ahead" of my OBGYN decades earlier. Back then, nobody told us the risks. They just dictated treatment.

I was changing my 3-month old's diaper at some kind of mom thing at someone's house. My daughter was wearing ONLY a t-shirt. Host's housekeeper looks and says, "darling baby...boy or girl?"

They do walk among us.

 

[k9ophile]

sometimes I'm the idiot so I try to be pleasant to make up for it.

Me, too. I'm famous for standing in front of something and asking a sales clerk where it is. I try to think of it as a public service. I may be the subject of someone's rant.