Posted by lucie lu on September 28, 2008, at 12:20:55
In reply to Re: My T is going to be out another 2 weeks » muffled, posted by TherapyGirl on September 28, 2008, at 8:53:37
Sorry for my duplicate posts.
> There's no interim T. Her voice mail says NOT to leave her messages and that if we are having issues, we can call the receptionist (who is extremely parttime, btw) to be put in touch with some random T. Not okay and not cool. To not have one person available?????????????
WTF is that about?? The underlying message to me is, "I'm worried about myself and I couldn't be bothered to find one person to fill in for me as needed. You can all f*ck yourselves."
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> Really, really not cool.TG- You know, it is possible that what she may be doing is offering a possible chain of contact. Her general phone message will be received not only by patients but also the outer world - referrals, consultation requests etc. So she has to be discouraging left messages under the circumstances. And answering machines fill up quickly if you're not checking things daily. But she may have set up a link: receptionist to a "random" therapist (how do you know he/she is random?) - that may allow a way for a patient who's having real difficulty to get a message to her. Even a random therapist would probably try to reach her if they thought it necessary.
I don't want to unnecessarily raise hopes - it may be none of these - and I wish that she had left a clearer back-up T referral. That does seem surprising. But I wonder if this other route might be a possible way after all to getting a message to her, even one that is communicated through third parties. Might be worth a try.
Lucie
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