Wednesday, August 10, 2011

Mary's desk, August 9, 2011

Guy walks in, stands up front.

Mary: "Hi, can I help you?"

Mr. Papers: "I have an appointment with Dr. Grumpy."

Mary: "Oh, yes. I mailed you our new-patient registration forms last week."

Mr. Papers: "I have them right here." (hands papers across counter)

Mary: "Thank you... Um, sir, these are completely blank."

Mr. Papers: "Was I supposed to fill them out?"

14 comments:

CholeraJoe said...

There is a finite limit to human intelligence, but stupidity knows no bounds.

ER's Mom said...

And that was why we quit mailing out the forms...waste of postage for either forgotten forms or not filled out forms.

PA Honeybee said...

I'm with CholeraJoe, unbelievable!

Roblol said...

I can understand why people take an ignorant and uneducated stance with their personal health... I mean who want's to follow directions? pfft.

ndenunz said...

Strike one.

Li'l Azathoth said...

"But I brought a stool sample, just in case you need one."

Anonymous said...

I've had it in reverse. Fill out forms and mail them back to , then show up and "lets just review these for correctness and then we'll submit them to the department that needs them". Why did I send them ahead then?

Anonymous said...

lets see.....Scarlet fever @9 yrs; adnoid removed @ 11............you have seen me for over 20 yrs I'm in my 70's and nobody reads this crap anyway and I filled this out three days ago......aaargh

oh wait it's a rule

OF

Anonymous said...

Anon 12:53, and then they won't bill your insurance until a year later even though you wrote it down and showed them your card.
After a year that's just too bad.

Doctor Blondie said...

Ah, I see why he needs a neurologist. Frontal lobe damage.

The Evil Receptionist said...

ER's Mom, I've made that same argument for a long time, and I *always* get outvoted, and I've never understood it.

Kat said...

I've dutifully mailed my forms back only to my GP to have to re-fill them out when I got there because my forms had not yet been scanned by central records... niether copy of them seems to have made it to my records at all(2.5 yrs later)... super awesome... we go over the same stuff that was covered in the form every apointment. The Allergist has forms online to print and bring with you... BEST THING since online refill requests :).

pharmacy chick said...

And now we see why he is seeing a neuro...

Anonymous said...

On the other hand, I remember one doctor's Desk Dragon getting very nasty with me because I declined to write a cheque and insisted that she wait until my husband arrived to pick me up, at which time he would write the cheque. The fact that I am right-handed and had just had surgery on my right wrist escaped her completely.

 
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