What can i do about this? As a parent im pissed of...?

Question

So i get a call from my clinic, saying that a paper came in from the hospital and that it was urgent for her to make an apoiment ASAP that way she can see them. Well, as a regular parent, i work, and i was finding any appoinment i can get, even if i have to ask the day off.. well, through out the week, they kept calling me and saying that it was urgent and such... so i finally get an appointment.. and when i go.. they say theres no paper, theres nothing here,..they said it was probably a mistake.. so i got mad.. like, you drove me here after several days of trying to get an appoinment.. i was stressed out all the week.. we had to cancel our family vacations.. just so to find out that there isnt a paper or anything from the hospital?

I know this is an accident, but, i cant just let this things slide..

what can i do about it?

Answer 1

I would be pissed off too! Why in h--l couldn't they have told you what it was about over the phone! If it was that urgent, I would have left work right then!!!! Find out who the jack--- was that called you. Read him or her the riot act, then go for the throat of her supervisor!!! Mistake or not! That was totally unexcusable!!! Just think of the time you had getting the appointment etc etc - if it had been urgent, to h--l with the appoinment, I would have demanded to know what was going on NOW!!!! I'd check into suing them for undue stress and s******g up your vacation!!!! Go get 'em girl!

Answer 2

Adopt a rule I made for myself years ago. Someone would corner me and say

"We need to talk"

"Sure let's talk."

"No not now I'll call you or come by sometime next week."

"What does this concerm?"

"I cant say."

"Well then I can't talk (but gentler that that) and I'd walk away. Because it would turn out to be Amway or I did something wrong.

I never pick up registered mail, I never return phone calls to people who don't state their business. If the FBI called me tomorrow and didn't state their business I would ignore them. In any proper communication both sides must communicate.

If a doctor called me and demanded I make an appointment without telling me why Id tell him to kiss  . .  well anyway

Answer 3

I know...jolly aggravating. I cannot tell you how many times I have been messed around in similar ways to this by ineptitude. Unfortuanately you have to accept it and get past it, because as long as you live, there will ALWAYS be inept people to come and annoy you. If you don't accept certain things (not everything of course), then you will turn very bitter and never be happy.

Answer 4

There isn't anything you can do about it.  It sounds like the hospital made an honest mistake.  Too bad for you.  Loosen up a little or you'll die from all that stress.