Been getting the whirlwind of tests and specialist visits my oncologist ordered set up. The office decided to sit on them for nearly a month until I gave them a ring asking, essentially, "What the heck?!?" So, all of my diagnostic tests are scheduled throughout the month of October, left a message for the endocrinologist and the dermatologist... oh, the dermatologist.

I get my medical care in a relatively large city close to where I live. Normal enough. There's an equally large city in a separate state that shares the same name. Someone in my oncologist's office put the name, phone number and presumably address of a dermatologist in that other city on file for my referral. They also dismissed my concerns about the area code for this clinic not even being in state.

As you can probably guess, the clinic had no record of any referral, they offer no services in my state (let alone my city) and were utterly confused as to why I was given their number.

I called the oncologist back and apparently what they said was that the dermatologists at the main hospital had too many patients, therefore they were shopping out my referral. Fair enough. Still doesn't explain why they were trying to send me to a clinic 12 hours away one way.