Quote Originally Posted by Mike P View Post
It’s been an ongoing battle but I finally got an appointment at VA to look at my Carpal Tunnel. My normal Dr at VA retired at the beginning of the year and VA put me on the Choice program. What a zoo (the choice program). I had my first appointment with the civilian Dr on the 9th of Jul. When I was there I asked for a referred back to the VA for the carpal tunnel, which they said they would do. Having had surgery at the Tucson VA that is where I want to have my wrist taken care of. After about 3 weeks of not hearing from the VA I finally contacted the Dr and they hadn’t sent the referral!!!

That started a month long battle with the Dr to submit the referral (with the Choice office also getting involved). Finally on the 27th of Aug Choice got the referral from the Dr. After a few days I contacted the Choice office and found out they were trying to refer me to another Choice provider instead of referring me back to the VA hospital as I had requested several times. I finally was able to get the VA hospital involved who contacted the Choice office at the Hospital and got my appointment for the surgery clinic.

Basically it ended up taking 2 months for the Dr/Choice program to submit the paperwork to VA just so I could get an appointment…..something that should have only taken a couple of days.

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Those who can, do.
Those who can't, teach.
And those who can do neither make nothing else but stupid pedantic rules to stymie the doers and teachers.
They're called 'bureaucrats'.

Here endeth your lesson for today.

On the plus side though the door and the gate look pretty flash alright; and should make entrance and exit much easier.
Very nice.
I like.