Unhappy with Your Appointment Day/Time with your Doctor?

A common complaint for patients is how long it may take to get in to see a medical specialist. A new patient appointment may be 1-2 weeks away when an earlier appointment may be desired. What to do? Of course, one can call around to every single specialist office in the region to see who has the next earliest appointment. Other options which may work just as well include the following: • Do NOT limit yourself to a specific day of the week and time. Always use the phrase "the very…

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INOVA Health System ER Wait Times iPhone App

A reader informed me that INOVA Health System has developed a free iPhone app called InovaER that provides wait times of all 9 emergency rooms within its health system throughout Northern Virginia. The app was released Aug 4, 2010. Pretty cool! Hopefully other hospital systems including  Fauquier Hospital  will join with other regional hospitals (Culpeper, Warren, Prince William, Haymarket) to create a similar program. Download the app here .

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