I showed up this afternoon at the main UW Medical Center on campus for my appointment with Travel Medicine – got directions from the information desk to head down to the 2nd floor, room 240. Get to 2nd floor – no signs anywhere for Travel Medicine. A nurse guy asks if he can help me, I tell him why I’m there, he says “It used to be right here, but I think they moved. Ask at the surgery check-in down the hall.”
So I do. I’m told that it’s just down the hall from where it used to be. Walk back. Nope. Wander into the next place with folks and tell my story again, only to get “Oh, Travel Medicine was closed in May.”
Yeahbuhwha?! I have an appointment. This makes little of the sensibles to me, and I inform the nice folks. They decide to look me up in their system (named “EPIC”!), and lo! There I am, with an appointment at HHTravel. Turns out that’s Hall Health, on main campus. Not where I am at all.
Fast-forward to me at Hall Health, 20 minutes late, realizing I don’t have my insurance card with me. Ah, crap. The nice front desk receptionist called TM to find out if I had time to try to get that information from work and still have my appointment. Nope. Double-crap!
So, home. I’ve rescheduled – amazingly, for Monday the 13th – and am now going to go hunt down my insurance card and stick it in with the rest of my paperwork already on hand.
Then, I think I’m going to have a drink.
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One response to “Travel Medicine FAIL”
Spectacular fail! Your reward for executing perfectly on Monday will likely be getting stuck with a bunch of needles, well, and developing life saving immunity to some nasty bugs.