If you had a mammogram done at Peninsula Diagnostics and need a copy of it, DON'T CALL THEM - unless you love complicated situations with no resolution in sight... GO DIRECTLY TO THEIR OFFICE, second floor, and ask the wonderful receptionists to make you a copy of your previous mammograms - go have a coffee and pastry around the corner, and come back to get your CD. Done.
Alternatively, you could call them and end up on their centralized Simon Med call center, wait one hour if you're lucky, or leave one or 15 messages for someone to call you back ...one day... Now, if you DO get someone, go ahead and ask them for a copy of your records. They won't have them. Now they might ask you many questions but will only confirm, in the end, that NOPE they don't have them. They'll even question whether you really had a mammogram done there. If you stay with them long enough, they might transfer you to their Medical Records department. Of course they won't have time to explain your situation so if you didn't record yourself the first time, go ahead and explain everything again, give all your numbers, and get another "no we don't have your records.. are you sure you did them here?..." now in the process, if you mention "Peninsula Diagnostics" enough, one of those many people you speak to may have a lightbulb moment and say "Oh Peninsula Diagnostics!! ok I know what happened.." then they'll explain how Simon Med bought them but that they don't have any of the records - but you could send a Release Authorization form and it'll take 3 weeks (maybe) to get them.
The next day, you'll call again, and you will literally talk to the same people and go through the whole shpeel again to confirm they got your release form, and they will not remember a thing about Peninsula Diagnostics, bought by Simon Med, nope no records, did you really have a mammogram with us?
Groundhog day...
Now this could all be a good story to tell over a boring dinner, but when you've got the pressure of a doctor saying they need your records to compare results or you're going to have to get a biopsy --- not so funny.
Does Simon Med care? not really. I spoke to them again, and after waiting long enough finally got to someone explaining I was NOT going to go through my whole situation again - that I wanted to speak with a manager. Poor guy seemed like he wanted to care and said he was going to get a manager for me. I'm waiting.. waiting.. til I say "hello?" and he was still there.. Are you getting a manager? - I'm talking to him now - What do you mean you're talking to him, can't he come on the phone? - no I'm chatting with him - Oh well is he going to call me? -no he's not going to because he doesn't see your records.
Basically the manager didn't have the guts to get on the phone with me. Nice.
I come to Yelp, and read in the reviews that you can either wait weeks to get the results. OR you can go in yourself to get them -- thank you to whoever posted that!
Went in this morning, spoke with Kalo, who was SO SO NICE, who confirmed my previous 4 mammograms were in her system, and that she could get them on a CD for me - would just take an hour.
Went down a block, got a pastry and a coffee, came back for my CDs, brought them myself to my doctor, and Voila -
If this post can spare 1 person a fraction of the aggravation I got from their ineptitude, totally worth it! read more