[The Good Doctor]

There are ways around the 2-week bit as it is. There was a shortage of docs at Ft. Hood when we were stationed there, particularly radiologists. They had a 2-week or 3-week, I forget which, limit for booking a “diagnostic” mammogram, 2 or 3 weeks after that to book an ultrasound when the mammo was suspicious, 2-3 weeks after that to look at the ultrasound and call regarding scheduling a needle biopsy, 2-3 weeks after the call to schedule it, 2-3 weeks to get the results, then a referral to surgery (at which point we pulled a few strings and got in earlier). Fortunately it ended up being benign but the whole process was closer to 4 months.'

That's Government medicine. In my practice this workup would have taken about 48 hours.

[BuckyKat]

The military system works well when they’re well staffed (which thus far we’ve discovered really only occurs at BAMC and TAMC - i.e. places with residents in multiple specialties). The problem with teaching hospitals of course is you never want to get sick the first of July ;-).