Ok, well. Continuing to try to finish the process of Getting A Primary Care Provider, Literally Anyone and the people I ALMOST have this figured out with are still not picking up the phone again to do the last final step of the process
To recap:
So far I have called 4 places, none of them picked up the phone on the first or second try, three of them picked up the phone after multiple attempts at navigating the phone tree and sitting on hold before getting kicked to voicemail, of those three one was not taking adult patients and didn't give any helpful information, one was not taking any patients but did tell me a different place which was, and that last one answered my call on the third or fourth try after giving up on the phone tree and simply not choosing an option and waiting for a very long time, retrying after getting kicked to voicemail.
The fourth option took my info, told me to wait for a call from them, called me back twice to ask other questions, then told me to call a different office to give them one number, and then call them back to schedule my first appointment. After calling the other office and giving them my number, I have not been able to get through to the actual doctors office again. I tried at least four times after the 'give other place your number' call on Friday, and twice today. I've tried two different phone tree options which seemed like they might have been right, as well as the "don't choose an option and just wait" approach. Every time I sit on hold for around 15-20 minutes (actual time seems variable for some reason?) listening to improperly looped music before it says, in two different voices, that [location] family medicine is not available and kicks me to voicemail.
I said this to Tom but if you told me that none of the people I've talked to about healthcare in the process of trying to get any kind of help are real, and this is all just a fucked up puzzle someone made to mess with me I think I would believe it.
The way literally every part of this process involves information that's just Wrong, and is ONLY accessible through phone calls, only during my work hours, and how it seems like there's Almost patterns to the randomness of whether I get through or not
It feels fake
update: giving up for now after the 7th try today because I need to focus on work
