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I am seething angry. I had already told my mom and dad that I'm expecting as this is my first and their support is important to me. Well my mom called me last night and said the doctors office had left a message on her home phone and said quote "This is the OBGYN calling to set up an appointment for *my name* for an ultrasound at 12 weeks."
UM?!? First of all nowhere did I list my parents number as an acceptable number to contact, I haven't listed it with this doctor for over 3 years, so instead of looking at the information I had provided last week they dug it out of 3 year old records.
Second of all I have no access to that number! If my mother hadn't called me I would have missed my opportunity for a timely NT Scan and had to call them and see what happened.
Thirdly what if my parents hadn't known I was expecting?! What a terrible way to break the news! How can they say such private details about my health care on an answering machine?! What if one of my younger siblings (who don't know I'm expecting) had answered and told someone else?! Doesn't this break tons of HIPA laws?
I still plan on seeing this doctor as they are absolutely fabulous in every other area, I just didn't expect this kind of massive oversight from them.
I am so angry. I remember reading something similar on here about a secretary who blabbed to a patients mother she was expecting, and I thought that the secretary was the biggest moron in the world! I can't believe something similar has happened to me, is something this ridiculous really that common?
UM?!? First of all nowhere did I list my parents number as an acceptable number to contact, I haven't listed it with this doctor for over 3 years, so instead of looking at the information I had provided last week they dug it out of 3 year old records.
Second of all I have no access to that number! If my mother hadn't called me I would have missed my opportunity for a timely NT Scan and had to call them and see what happened.
Thirdly what if my parents hadn't known I was expecting?! What a terrible way to break the news! How can they say such private details about my health care on an answering machine?! What if one of my younger siblings (who don't know I'm expecting) had answered and told someone else?! Doesn't this break tons of HIPA laws?
I still plan on seeing this doctor as they are absolutely fabulous in every other area, I just didn't expect this kind of massive oversight from them.
I am so angry. I remember reading something similar on here about a secretary who blabbed to a patients mother she was expecting, and I thought that the secretary was the biggest moron in the world! I can't believe something similar has happened to me, is something this ridiculous really that common?