*UPDATE* Would you find a new Uro?

No feathers ruffled regarding your post anyway. As for the lack of service from my uro's office, that is another matter entirely.

I would say minimizing shoddy service in ANY field is enabling that behavior and goes beyond that in a field where matters of life and death potentially ride. There is no excuse for this. None. I would say that if it was you, or anyone else. Doesn't have to be me. It's just unfortunate that it is. I would challenge anyone to tell me that this isn't an issue relating to $. I called to make an appointment with my office. I was told I could just see a nurse, so that's what I did. Now, my results are being held hostage because I never saw the doc, so he can't bill me. So, because he didn't get to bill me on the front side, he's trying to get it back by withholding my results until I do see him so he can bill me. My insurance dropped him from coverage at the end of 2013. There is another uro in the same office whom my insurance does accept so I asked to see him but was told over the phone that both were covered by my insurance despite what I was told. Scheduler said it wouldn't matter because I would just be seeing a nurse anyway. Now, I sit a couple of days without my results due to no error of mine. Where's my complicity? I'm just a guy trying to take a test who wanted his results like anyone else would.

So, you're saying I could drive to the uro's office and they still might not give me my results? We'll see what happens today. My initial plan of just forgoing these follow up tests would have been much better for my state of mind. I would worry less about recurrence that way and wouldn't be subjected to business related games that cause more concern than what I was concerned about in the first place.

Never crossed my mind to publicly mention this office by name. I'm not sure where legalities come into play in a case like this but understand the concern.

Who knows... Maybe, they'll call today? Would be totally classless of them to not call and leave me hanging over the weekend but this is the same office that told me after my biopsy that I would have to wait an extra week to get my results because the uro was going on vacation with his kids. Not another soul could've ended the mental anguish by giving me the results earlier? I should've left that office long ago. I'm paying for my lack of action then...today.

Post Edited (Inchoation) : 3/28/2014 6:51:29 AM (GMT-6)

I do have the perspective from which you're writing from, however, none of it excuses poor service. I wouldn't give it, nor do I expect it in return. I'm glad you have the relationship you have with him. Would love to be within earshot regarding bleeding penises.

When I was sent for X rays regarding a semi suspicious spot found on my bone scan, I vented some stuff to the INCREDIBLE guy taking my pics. What a guy this dude was. The type that fit the ideal profile to be working in the field and I told him how much I appreciated him. It opened me to vent a little regarding some things that happened at my uro's office. He referred to my uro as unprofessional and said things like that were prevalent in the field, but I would have to "play the game" to get what was best for me. BTW, the uro told me just prior to going over for the X-ray that it was "game over" for me and "all we would do is give you shots to keep you comfortable" if the spot on my bone scan proved to be cancer.

I've had quite the experience with this guy. He is office visit happy. At one point, I asked him why and if it was about the $ and told him I needed a uro who cared about my wellness not just the $. He seemed hurt by my line of questioning but said I was a unique patient with lots of good questions who was well researched. He brought this all up the day he diagnosed me with PCa... His quote was, "See. We weren't just trying to steal your money." Almost as if to say...in your face you *&%$. I was a little put off by the comment but I'd just been told I had PCa so his mannerism was the least of my concern.

My reason for staying has more to do with the fact that I'd left another uro for making we wait 18 days for the results of a PSA test. I didn't want to get into a pattern of just ditching office after office for every little thing that didn't sit well with me. 18 days to get a PSA result is beyond ridiculous, though. That office wanted to biopsy me but no way was I letting them do it. I couldn't stand another 18 days waiting to hear the results on that, so I found my current uro through an odd referral from a lifelong friend's wife who is a PCa researcher in Wisconsin. It would seem my luck is rather poor in the way of uro selection, or this truly is the norm. Either way it's disappointing.

Post Edited (Inchoation) : 3/28/2014 7:39:37 AM (GMT-6)

No answers provided today. I was told the person I needed to talk to was out of the office and to call her back on Monday.

First class.

EDIT: I was able to finally get someone live in the office and they gave me the results. Now, I'm not so sure it was such a good idea to want them so badly.

0.082...no less than in this instance. Ouch. If the stats are to be believed I'm at an 89% chance of bio chemical recurrence.

Sorry, for all the ranting. I have much bigger things to be concerned about now.

Post Edited (Inchoation) : 3/28/2014 3:08:51 PM (GMT-6)