This review is for one singular person that works at Salem Radiology and not the entire staff, I debated for a few days about if it was worth it to write a review about a single employee but the interactions that I had with her were so awful that I finally decided I needed to do it.
If you're calling in to Salem Radiology and get a receptionist named Cathy (I was given her name by her boss) please do yourself a favor and ask to speak with someone else. This is what she did to me:
I called into Salem Radiology to check on the status of a referral for an ultrasound (I'm pregnant) sent by my previous doctors office (I'd like to preface that this doctors office is a train wreck.) When I called in a woman answered and said she needed my name and date of birth. I gave it to her and she asked if I'd been there before; in which I responded yes but I must've been 12/13 at the time and it would be under my maiden name. I cracked a joke that I wasn't old enough to be married then in which she replied, "it's not like you're much older now...." Completely rude and insulting for absolutely no reason, not her place to speak on, HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH HER JOB.
I disregarded the comment and she went on to tell me that my referral wasn't there yet. Frustrated by my doctors office inability to do anything correctly or in a timely manner I explain to her my issue and ask her what she's suggest I do, (call them back myself, physically go down there and ask for it, etc) She tells me "this is like the 3rd issue we've had with this Dr. Office this week, don't worry about it, I'll call them and track down your referral for you, let's just get you an appointment booked with us." Fantastic, I thought wow that's amazing she's going out of her way to help me out. I booked the appointment with them and assumed because I was told she would track down my referral all I needed to do was show up for my appointment the following week!
I then show up to my appointment at Salem Radiology with my husband who took time off work to be there to see our baby for the 1st time to be told by a different employee that they don't have my referral. I explain that I was specifically told by one of their employees that she would "track down" my referral and am furious that I was told this and that employee hadn't actually done anything other than call my doctors office once..... Now I'm aware that it's probably extremely difficult to track down every last patients referrals but DON'T TELL YOUR PATIENTS YOU'RE GOING TO DO THAT IF YOU AREN'T ACTUALLY GOING TO DO THAT!!
The absolute WORST things this employee did didn't happen until the day after my original appointment with Salem Radiology. I received a call for my previous doctors office the next morning explaining that they had actually sent the referral. I called Salem Radiology, again not knowing who I'm speaking to and ask on the status of a referral. This women tells me they actually have it. (Praise) She then asks me when I want to get in...(I only have the next day in the afternoon open for weeks) I explain this to the women and tell her I'm sure they're extremely busy and the very calmly (because I don't know who this woman is or if she even knew what had happened) I explain to her what had happened the day before; she interrupts me to tell me "she was actually the one who booked my original appointment and that she did call them once and that most of this is actually my fault and that it's solely the clients responsibility to figure their referrals out, do I want a 3:45 the next day?" I said "What?!" And the she says, "okay great!" And the HANGS UP THE PHONE!!!! SHE HANGS UP ON A PATIENT!!! I can't even believe that someone who who verbally attack a patient on a phone call and then hang up on them still has a job there but she does.
I spoke to her manager about this and he was extremely kind and I had fine experiences with every other staff member there. I'm simply writing this to warn potential clients calling in to ask who you're speaking to and again, if you get Cathy, please, ask for someone else. She's absolutely unprofessional, disrespectful, and should not still be working in a professional medical office!! read more