Wayne, I agree with you. Many of the specialists in my area have their own "referral form" they want you to fill out. Often it is a photocopy of a photocopy of a photocopy. Very grainy and skewed. I hate it when staff are too lazy to locate the orignal form and keep making photocopies of photocopies.
Even though I PC fax a perfectly legible demographics page from my practice managment program which has all the insurances and numbers and even eligibility checking already done, they insist they must have "their form" done. Of course I PC fax a referral from amazing charts too and my last note and appropriate labs.
Ok, I'm off my soapbox. I know some specialists get irritated when the PCP issues a consult to the cardiologist for "heart problem" but we are a lot more specific :-)
Patients also irritate me when they call up, haven't been seen in 8 months, and want referral to specialist XYZ for some vague problem that I have never evaluated them for. The specialist gets upset if they don't have specific info. Patients don't understand this and get upset when we ask them to come in for a face to face appt.
