༻Carly༺@Xarluna · Oct 9, 2026I once had a biopsy done on my cervix an was told they would call with the results. Waited over two weeks. Never…
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A user describes the anxiety and frustration of waiting over two weeks for cervix biopsy results after being promised a call, only to discover benign results on their patient portal without any notification. They argue doctors should always proactively call patients with results rather than expecting them to check portals, as many lack access to technology and experience significant anxiety during the wait.
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I once had a biopsy done on my cervix an was told they would call with the results. Waited over two weeks. Never called. Checked my portal and benign results had been there since like two days after the biopsy. I told my doc nobody called me and her response? 🧵
Mr PitBull Stories@MrPitbull07 · Oct 7, 2026Telling an eighty-year-old woman to "check the portal" for serious biopsy results is cruelty disguised as digital efficiency. My 82-year-old aunt had a lung biopsy done two weeks ago. The doctor told her they’d have the pathology report ready within five business days. Friday afternoon rolled around. No call. She dialed the clinic’s main desk, her voice shaking with anxiety. The receptionist cut her off before she could finish explaining: “Doctor doesn’t give results over the phone anymore. All lab findings are automatically released to your MyChart patient portal.” My aunt said, “Sweetheart, I don’t have a computer. I have a landline on my kitchen wall. Can the doctor just tell me if I have cancer?” The receptionist sighed into the receiver: “It’s hospital network policy. We can’t bypass the portal. You’ll have to have a family member create an account and view the file.” My aunt spent an entire seventy-two-hour weekend sitting in her recliner, gripping her reading glasses, convinced she was dying. I drove out to her house on Monday morning, set up a profile on my laptop, and pulled up the records. The result was benign. The pathology report had been uploaded four days earlier. A doctor spent three minutes clicking an upload button, and an elderly woman endured four days of sheer psychological terror because the hospital decided a phone call was too expensive. Since when did delivering medical news become a self-service task?
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