Could it be that Senior Citizens are - - - - UNDERDOCTORED? Addendum of 5/27/26.

 Just some observations:   Your doctor may have had a perfect SAT Score, and  earned outstanding accolades in Medical School. How is it then he seems to lack basic medical knowledge in his specialty? Either he is not that smart after all, or he just does not want to expend the fruits of his vast store of medical knowledge on short-term successes.  (I went to medical school to SAVE  lives, long term, not merely to add a few months here and there. 

  Fair Warning. Heads Up.  Pay Attention.  You Will Owe.

For a rather routine procedure, the practice schedules a time not for the procedure, but for a TIME  you will receive a PHONE CAll  to SCHEDULE that procedure. Be there to take the call.

Important notice: FEES 

   The handout the office gives you warns you in 3 different places that there will be a  $!00 Fee if 

              (1) you fail  to show at the scheduled time

                      or

              (2)  you reschedule LESS than 2 business days prior to your scheduled exam

                    or

            (3) you fail to follow the preparation for the exam.

So slink in to your appointment, and be on time, follow all the rules, and be grateful that your care is paramount. 

I waited by the phone, at 10 a.m, fearing I might miss the call if it should be earkier than the designated time of 10:30.  I had before me as instructed the sheet handed to me when I left my visit. The sheet had the time I would be called and all the other pertinent information, including the location where the  procedure would be scheduled. I wiited for the call, the seconds , then the minutes ticking by. At last the phone rang, at 11:20 a.m., almost an hour late, with the time that I could show up for the procedure, (which if I missed, remember the charge of $100.)  Although all seemed set in stone, according to that sheet of paper, I thought to ask, to verify the location. The sheet of paper listed my choice of Clifton Park, but the rep told me it was to be in Albany. No problem to correct the wrong place, it just meant rescheduling the time. Geez, if I'd gone to the address on my sheet of paper, I might have had to pay one hundred bucks.