PT: "is there any space at all left for an MRI tomorrow?"
Me: "i'm terribly sorry but there's not, the best we can do is monday."
PT: "there's no way at all you can squeeze me in?"
Me: "i'm afraid we can't, MRIs have very specific times that they require"
PT: "would 1k make it happen?"

woooooow

Me: "........................i'm"
Me: "i'm sorry??"
PT: "just cos i've got some spending money"
Me: "I'm. sorry but that's not relevant to how we make bookings????"
PT: "damn it"

HOW DO YOU REPLY TO THAT

OMG

I had someone try to bribe me for a camping spot once when I was a park ranger, but it wasn't 1k. Like, that's a pretty serious bribe attempt there.

he could pay for his mri three times over with 1k

Was he American?

nah he sounded pretty inner-city aussie

1k to save three days of waiting for magnets?? sir

Jeeeeesus

This feels ambitious to me, but that's because I'm used to bribe attempts from 14 year olds, which range from coupons from the newspaper to $20

lol whaaaat
I’m just. It IS so irrelevant to medical appointments, like. what are you going to do, slip it to the radiologist? ‘We just need you to stay like...one extra hour. No one will notice. Clearly.”

Also lol my entire soul died in American healthcare at ‘that would pay for his MRI three times over’

Clearly you're just sitting on all these unbooked time slots and not filling them up out of spite.

wingedvoices: ..................I had to google what the cost would be in the US (I've previously only known it's Expensive) and. just. what kind of hellscape country is the US.
I've had four head-and-upper-body MRIs and not paid a single cent for any of them (Scandinavian).

Yeaaaah. Like. It varies widely based on insurance and if you’ve hit your deductible and if you’ve hit out of pocket and and and

But if you have high deductible or no insurance you’re just. Fucked. I have so many medical bills from when I was younger where I just let them go to collections and tank my credit bc....EVENTUALLY it goes away

But even with insurance it is truly a hellscape. My family is three chronically ill people with lots of weird shit and we literally look forward to hitting our out of pocket max pay every year because then we can schedule AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE before the year ends

God, I'm sorry. /never moving out of Sweden

Guess what the out of pocket max pay per year is here, regardless of if you have insurance or not? Just under 130 USD.

Lol, a fair assessment! I’m glad it’s easier there!
I mean, we have things that are easier here: from what I can tell, of the places my friends live (not sure about Sweden but I think it’s true of most of Scandinavia) the US has by far the easiest and fastest access to trans health care in at least SOME places depending on where you are but like. Adjafl.

130. Jfc

Oh yeah, I'm absolutely not trying to imply it's perfect here or that other countries don't have their pros. I'm not super familiar with trans health care specifically, but long wait lists are definitely a problem in health care overall here.

MRIs are truly appallingly expensive in the US

American healthcare costs are just appalling in general, but also bribing the appointment scheduler is very. wtf even??

I'm so curious to know what the rush was

TeaMergency: right? Like -- I understand being freaked out by whatever you need an MRI for but nothing* is gonna change over the weekend.

Maybe dude had travel planned? Literally the only thing I can think of. (Or uh, shady business he had to attend to?)

*that they wouldn’t be giving you an MRI in a hospital for

I was thinking travel, but then I would just schedule it for when I returned if I was well enough to travel...

If I could bribe the place I was supposed to get an ultrasound this week into taking my insurance, I would. I had to cancel because $1500+ for a 15-minute scan is out of the question.