I have the same experience as everyone who commented above, regarding the failure of the hospital to provide timely reports, especially those with abnormal results. As regards the other 6 doctors who received reports, there may be another explanation for the lack of follow-up. I regularly have problems from certain hospitals or physician's offices, in which the initial face sheet or partial page is received by my fax, but never the whole document. Very commonly even large institutions fail to properly configure their fax face sheet, so it is impossible to establish what information on which patient was not received completely. If all the doctors, including Bert, received a partial fax without the critical information, no follow-up would be possible. Trying to troubleshoot this type of problem with the hospital IT person usually gets down to a problem of finger-pointing.
