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8/23/2014

Phrustration

One of the many purposes of furlough is to get caught up on our medical needs, but it can be very costly to find a new family practitioner (our old one has since retired) and pay the co-pay for a visit, get them our medical information, then get a prescription, etc.

Our doctors at the clinic in PNG are very helpful and awesome.  Knowing we’d be traveling a lot, they decided to help us out by giving Kendal a prescription for her meds that she could fill once we landed in CA rather than spend the time trying to get into a doctor’s office.

Being on the road, Kendal had run out, I dropped off the prescription, they wouldn’t renew it.  Their computer system (in the center of the Silicon Valley) couldn’t find the info it needed.  A few days later, we made a call, tried again,  nothing
lost another day, tried again, nothing.

Finally we wrote an email to our Doctor in PNG, who then made a SKYPE call to the pharmacy, and within 30 minutes we had our meds!

Our doctors in PNG are awesome!  They’re not only skilled, available, affordable, and personally care about our family and intimately known our medical needs, but they’re also willing to go the extra mile and make a call on a weekend for us.  

They work long hours, and hard, and during the quiet rare moments of rest they do get, they made a call for us, and rescued us from Pharmacy Phrustration.

Thanks!