Mistaken Identity…. again
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Mr. Burton, this is Dr. K’s office. Please call our office in regards to a foot x-ray we received for you from Dekalb Medical Center.
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Larry, this is Dr. K. I need to talk to fairly urgently. Would you please call my office when you get this message
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These are the messages I had on my answering machine Yesterday morning. Dr. K had just performed knee surgery on me this past Tuesday and I thought I was recovering well. What did a foot xray have to do with anything. I hadn’t had a foot x-ray in about three years.
I gave Dr. K’s office a call but he hadn’t arrived at the office yet. It was still before 9:00am. I went about my business and pretty much forgot about the call. Around 9:15am Dr. K returned my call.
“Larry, are you okay?”
“Yes,” I replied. “Things are going great with my knee. All I have is a little muscle soreness now but the joint itself feels great.”
“Good, good, but listen, I received an x-ray of a leg where the foot had been amputated with all sorts of pins in the leg and it had your name on it with me as the doctor. I was worried you had been in an accident on the way home from your surgery. Everything is alright, right?”
Dr. K was fairly upset with the mix up but I was a little amused. It seems I’m the victim of mistaken identity on a fairly regular basis.
General | Larry D. Burton | 03 August 2007 |
