Your primary care doctor has been nagging you for years. Your wife and brother seem to be in on the scheme too. Every once and a while one of your coworkers even says (with a chuckle) “C’mon Bob, you’re fifty-seven, you really need to get it done!”
“OK, enough,” you finally say, “I’ll go for a colonoscopy!” So at your next visit you ask your primary doctor how to set it up and he gives you the name of a local gastroenterologist to call. After a week or two, you finally build up the courage to call the office and say proudly, “Hi, I want to schedule a colonoscopy!”
“Have you seen the doctor already sir?” asks the receptionist.
You answer, “No, but Dr. Jones is my primary, he can send over all my records. I just need a colonoscopy.”
“You need to make an appointment to see the doctor first sir, then we can schedule the colonoscopy,” says the receptionist.
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