A week ago, I wrote a letter to my PCP, asking what had happened. They had made a referral to pain management, with an appointment for the 18th. I began the process of this referral on September 15, 2015 and had waited since then for the Jan 18 appointment. I wanted to obtain Trigger Point Injections for Fibromyalgia. As is the case with most facilities in this day and age, they use computerized reminder calls. The Saturday prior to the appointment, I realized that said call had not come. I became concerned. On Monday, prior to my appointment time, I phoned the office that the appointment was supposed to be at and was told that they had no record of said referral, nor said appointment. This prompted the letter to my physician. It took me 2 years to obtain a physician in this area. They are very few here and I received a lot of attitude along the way. I also had two ER visits during those 2 years, once for chest pain and a second for slight hypothermia. On both occasions I was treated with disdain by certain female nurses in that ER, and upon discharge, treated worse when they found I did not have a PCP to follow up with. I HAD BEEN TRYING!!!! Now I have a PCP, but they are using their computer system to communicate with their specialists and other areas within their facility and said system does NOT work, from what I can see, at all. Had my referral been for life saving care, I would be dead. Had my message to my doctor been for life sustaining medication, I would be dead. If I do not leave this area, I probably will be dead because medical care is virtually non-existent and this place cannot keep physicians. Whatever you do people, if you go to Potter County, Pennsylvania, for any reason, and need medical care, GO ELSEWHERE! read more
