March 11th, 2025

I go in to get a breast exam done by the on-call doctor. She finds the lump and requests a mammogram and ultrasound “stat”. However, “the system” won’t allow her place the request because I’ve never had a mammogram before. She assures me she’ll have someone help her with the issue and I should get a call in the next 30 minutes to get it scheduled.



Two hours later, I still haven’t received a phone call so I call Kaiser’s Imaging department and find out that the exams have been added to my chart and I try to schedule them right away. Kaiser, however, can only schedule the mammogram and ultrasound for April 17th at their clinic in Lafayette (1h+ away from where I live). I ask if I can schedule it with a clinic outside of Kaiser and I am told that I can’t because this will be my first time getting these exams and I must do them with Kaiser.



I end up finding a clinic in Denver that can see me the next day and perform both exams (they also say they are within Kaiser’s network). I’m not waiting for Kaiser.


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