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Does your mom not have any doctors?
She can simply save her doctors as contacts
I’m jealous that you have never been sick in any way. That’s very literally not how the medical system works.
Did you save the phone number for the lab that processed your blood work most recently? It’s not the phone number of the people you gave the blood to, they passed it off to somebody else.
Do you save the phone number of the people that did your x-ray in the doctor’s office? It’s actually an independent contractor with a different patient notification system.
Oh by the way the pharmacy technician called you from the local branch line instead of the head office. Guess you aren’t getting your meds this month.
In no world should the technicians be contacting you about the results lol they should send the results to your doctor
No, i live in the 21. century and all that is done digitally. The only calls that are coming are pre-arranged
You might live in the 21st century.... But medicine still runs on fax machines
In the US. Not in the 21st century.
That system really sounds tedious.
Here blood results are sent to your "Hausarzt" (some doctor near you who you always go to for smaller stuff but also things like this) so he can decide what you should do (he knows you better than some random company).
X-Rays are instantly discussed with you (instantly may include waiting for an hour in the hospital). Sometimes additionally also sent to your "Hausarzt".
Pharmacies simply do offer your meds, if they have trouble getting them they contact other pharmacies but that was only the case during covid.
(And all that is paid for in tax money)
Pharmacies definitely sometimes need to order meds. Though often they just give you a date. It's impossible to always have every niche medication in stock. But if number whitelisting became common, it just wouldn't be an issue bc they would give all the relevant numbers to every customer.
In the US, somehow, all your doctor calls' are made through the insurance's phone. (i guess)