Supporting the Doctor's Ski Habit

UPDATE: New date for Tom's (Dad's) surgery. Now it's scheduled for 05:30 on Tuesday, March 28th. Why? Because the surgeon decided to go out of town and won't be back till Monday. No explanation. No excuses. Just gone. Doesn't matter that Sherry has already traveled 10,000 miles at a cost of over a thousand dollars to get here in time for Dad's surgery. Doesn't matter that Robin had to pay for another ticket to be here for the new dates needed. Doesn't matter how many people's work schedules and lives have to be rearranged, and it doesn't matter that Dad himself has been sitting on pins and needles waiting for this surgery to happen. The doc wanted to go skiing, or golfing, or who knows what? He doesn't even consider us worthy of telling why he decided to reschedule Dad's surgery. He probably charged the trip, and will use the money he makes doing Dad's surgery to pay for it -- on the rescheduled date, at HIS convenience, of course. AAAARGH. (This is not the first time this doctor has rescheduled Dad's appointments, sometimes just HOURS before the appointment because he decided to go on a trip, on a whim or whatever.) Why do doctors think they are some kind of demigods? I used to work for a surgeon and he pulled some of the same kind of stunts, and we as the staff had to cover for him and make him look good to the patients. He was, after all, a good surgeon in spite of the fact that he was a total ASS of a human being. I think this doctor is cut from the same cloth. Doesn't make it any more palatable.

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