On January 22nd my husband and I emailed our family doctor two letters that would help us with getting food stamps and appealing my disabilty turn-down and starting my husband’s disability case. We literally wrote the letters for him, all he had to do was to print it out on his letterhead and sign it.
Today is February 8th and has this been done? No! Have I called, has my husband called several times? Yes!
Not to pick on this one doctor, for the most part they all seem to be this way. I know they are busy, but literally these letters make the difference between how fast we will burn through our money, possibly leading to bankrupcy and how fast we can get our disability processes restarted and started.
I honestly don’t get it. My only wish is that a doctor or a friend of a doctor would see this post and realize that when we ask for these letters, they are needed as soon as possible and are very serious for patient’s cases.
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I hope you can get what you need as soon as possible.
I’ve been in similar situations with forms. (Docs here don’t give out their email addresses and I’ve heard of patients being penalized for using them if they somehow find them.)
What I’ve had to do is make an appointment to get the form signed.
Yes, it is annoying and draining but unfortunately it seems to be the most efficient way to accomplish anything. Even getting a new prescription written based on formulary changes.
Even with an appointment just for paperwork it may not help. (We never did manage to get some student loan papers filled out ‘right’ before the GP got annoyed.) However, this has been what has worked best for me.
I will add that I’m lucky and can usually get an appointment with my GP in less than two-three weeks. If your GP’s office works differently then this might not work.
I always find it best to make friends with someone in the office. That way when you need an appointment in a hurry or a paper signed they may advocate for you. It stinks but sometimes it seems that’s the way its done.
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