Holding...

 So Carolyn had her PET scan a month ago. She'd had a CT scan which showed stuff in her lungs that shouldn't be there. So a PET Scan is to determine if it's cancer.

After the scan, she waited. Someone should surely call her with results. Nobody called. Finally, (after much nagging), Carolyn called the imaging center and asked if the report was sent to her doctor. It was not. It was sent to a doctor she had seen once and had no further appointments with.

"Please send it to my doctor, the one who ordered the scan."

And the response: we'll snail mail it because I don't have your doctor's fax number. (Seriously? One phone call will take care of that.)

More nagging and Carolyn finally makes an appointment with her doctor. She tells them it's to get the PET Scan results. Finally she goes to her appointment and nobody has bothered to get the results. As Carolyn is sitting in the office, nothing happens.

This was on Friday. 11am. So the doctor tells Carolyn to go home and she will call that afternoon with the results.

No phone call.

Now it's the weekend and the week of Christmas. Carolyn doesn't know if she has lung cancer. Nobody in her doctor's office is treating this as if it matters.

Just another way that healthcare in the US fails us.