odd patient appointments
Barnhart Prosthetics
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Title:
odd patient appointments
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Barnhart Prosthetics
Date:
2/12/2010
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The recent post about a bilateral Hip Disartic reminded me of
Hi All,
The recent post about a bilateral Hip Disartic reminded me of a somewhat frequent occurence that I was wondering if others shared.
Once in a while we will get a call from someone with a request for an evaluation for a prosthesis of some sort. It is commonly for a device that would be somewhat uncommon, or uncommon circumstances for our facility. (one time, was from a man who claimed that his wife was a new bilateral transhumeral amputee and wanted an appointment to discuss her options, not an everyday thing in our office.) An appointment will be made, and then the people never show up. The number they give most times does not work or rings and rings, and then never hear anything from the people. The last one was from a guy who called and wanted to discuss options about a prosthesis he got somewhere else and wasn't happy about. I got on the line to talk with him, he said a few words then hung up. We actually got the number he dialed from off caller ID, called back, got a machine for some guy on the east coast, and we're in Oregon. This sort of thing happens maybe 2
or 3 times a year for us.
I was just curious if this happens to others or if we're just the lucky recipients of this kind of weird attention? I will summarize responses.
(Hopefully I'm not inviting more of this twisted behavior by posting here publicly)
Thanks,
Nathan Keepers, CPO
Barnhart P and O
Hi All,
The recent post about a bilateral Hip Disartic reminded me of a somewhat frequent occurence that I was wondering if others shared.
Once in a while we will get a call from someone with a request for an evaluation for a prosthesis of some sort. It is commonly for a device that would be somewhat uncommon, or uncommon circumstances for our facility. (one time, was from a man who claimed that his wife was a new bilateral transhumeral amputee and wanted an appointment to discuss her options, not an everyday thing in our office.) An appointment will be made, and then the people never show up. The number they give most times does not work or rings and rings, and then never hear anything from the people. The last one was from a guy who called and wanted to discuss options about a prosthesis he got somewhere else and wasn't happy about. I got on the line to talk with him, he said a few words then hung up. We actually got the number he dialed from off caller ID, called back, got a machine for some guy on the east coast, and we're in Oregon. This sort of thing happens maybe 2
or 3 times a year for us.
I was just curious if this happens to others or if we're just the lucky recipients of this kind of weird attention? I will summarize responses.
(Hopefully I'm not inviting more of this twisted behavior by posting here publicly)
Thanks,
Nathan Keepers, CPO
Barnhart P and O
Citation
Barnhart Prosthetics, “odd patient appointments,” Digital Resource Foundation for Orthotics and Prosthetics, accessed November 5, 2024, https://library.drfop.org/items/show/231183.
