Socialized medicine

Today was my first experience with socialized medicine (well, to the extent that occupational therapy can be called medicine).  I received a referral to Early Start for Oscar’s delays/whatever.  I called immediately (of course) and was told in three different languages (if you’re wondering, the third was Chinese – sort of surprising) that it would be at least two weeks before someone returned my call.  This is simply to talk about scheduling an assessment – the assessment itself will not happen for at least 45 days after that call (at least two months from now, then).  I am, of course, exploring privatized medicine as well, although oddly it’s going to be a little while before I get in with that guy, too. Maybe that patience I learned (sort of) while adopting Oscar will come in handy here.

September 18, 2008 - Posted by Oscar and Etta's mom | Parenting | autism, developmental delays, socialized medicine