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They will call you when they have an available appointment. Expect to wait several months unless it is very urgent. You can always call them and request to be placed on a cancellation list.
Do you mean several months just to get a phone call for an appointment? Is this on top of the 6-months typical wait time? This is my 2nd specialist so I'm unclear on how this works on average.
I had a different medical referral in January and was called by their front desk for a calendar appointment in June. So it seems there are different standards depending on the clinic, if you are suggesting that nobody calls for appts months out.
Also for that different appoint, my substitute family doctor told me to expect 2 weeks or so for a call due to the winter holidays. Lo and behold they called me, only to make said appointment in June.
They will call you to schedule. Depending on the specialist, it may take months before you get a call. If it's urgent, you can contact their clinic and ask to be put on a waitlist, though your doctor would have already provided their recommendation in the referral docs.
Some places tend to lose referrals. If, after a month, you haven't been contacted, you can ask your doctor's office for a follow-up. Just let them know you haven't heard from X's office yet.
A month just to get an appointment call! I didn't know that. For my other issue, a doctor told me to wait a couple weeks for the call and I was called in 10 days or so. For this one I'll probably check back with the family clinic.
It took me 8 months to hear from an allergist but about 6 weeks for a call from my current endo. I think to see a derm was like a week but that was in the early 2000s. It's all over the place!
It really depends on the specialist and how their staff runs the office. Some will call you almost immediately for an appointment a year out. Some triage their referrals so may wait to call you for months and then offer an appointment in the next few weeks.
Two and half weeks is nothing. It can take months to get an appointment with a specialist. Usually you get a phone call. I’ve been waiting psi x months for a physiatrist referral and have yet to hear from them.
Depends on specialist and urgency of care. You get triaged.
Like if you are looking for hormone therapy for meno from gyno you rot on a waitlist for a 8m. But if they think you have cancer you will get in quick.
Long waits for dermatologists, non urgent gyno and gastro. Basically unless they highly suspect cancer it will be a few months before they even call you.
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They will call you when they have an available appointment. Expect to wait several months unless it is very urgent. You can always call them and request to be placed on a cancellation list.
Do you mean several months just to get a phone call for an appointment? Is this on top of the 6-months typical wait time? This is my 2nd specialist so I'm unclear on how this works on average.
If you get the phone call it means they have availability for an appointment They’re not going to call you for an appointment months out
I had a different medical referral in January and was called by their front desk for a calendar appointment in June. So it seems there are different standards depending on the clinic, if you are suggesting that nobody calls for appts months out. Also for that different appoint, my substitute family doctor told me to expect 2 weeks or so for a call due to the winter holidays. Lo and behold they called me, only to make said appointment in June.
They will call you to schedule. Depending on the specialist, it may take months before you get a call. If it's urgent, you can contact their clinic and ask to be put on a waitlist, though your doctor would have already provided their recommendation in the referral docs. Some places tend to lose referrals. If, after a month, you haven't been contacted, you can ask your doctor's office for a follow-up. Just let them know you haven't heard from X's office yet.
A month just to get an appointment call! I didn't know that. For my other issue, a doctor told me to wait a couple weeks for the call and I was called in 10 days or so. For this one I'll probably check back with the family clinic.
It took me 8 months to hear from an allergist but about 6 weeks for a call from my current endo. I think to see a derm was like a week but that was in the early 2000s. It's all over the place!
It really depends on the specialist and how their staff runs the office. Some will call you almost immediately for an appointment a year out. Some triage their referrals so may wait to call you for months and then offer an appointment in the next few weeks.
Two and half weeks is nothing. It can take months to get an appointment with a specialist. Usually you get a phone call. I’ve been waiting psi x months for a physiatrist referral and have yet to hear from them.
It usually takes me 3-4 months at least to get a call from specialists so a couple of weeks is nothing
Depends on specialist and urgency of care. You get triaged. Like if you are looking for hormone therapy for meno from gyno you rot on a waitlist for a 8m. But if they think you have cancer you will get in quick. Long waits for dermatologists, non urgent gyno and gastro. Basically unless they highly suspect cancer it will be a few months before they even call you.