She has no contract with her patients? Like "if you don't cancel more than 24 hours in advance you are billed $x"?!? That's not terribly well thought out of her. But kind, I suppose. Unlike most doctors and dentists and such, though.
No. You're missing the point. The design of the thing is functional. The plan is not to shoot you. The plan is to get the girl. If there's no girl, then the plan, well, is like the room.
Early ,'Objects In Space'
Natter 65: Speed Limit Enforced by Aircraft
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, pandas, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
meara - Feb 10, 2010 12:04:20 pm PST #7743 of 30001
Cashmere - Feb 10, 2010 12:08:41 pm PST #7744 of 30001
Now tagless for your comfort.
I'm thinking this parent/therapist has a Jackass Clause.
Daisy Jane - Feb 10, 2010 12:09:13 pm PST #7745 of 30001
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
If we can't be there, or a patient can't be there, we are simply not paid.
I was gonna call bullshit, but I see other people beat me to it. I also want to know where she got her degree. My soon-to-be therapist friend expects to make quite a bit. She needs to if only to make the degree worth it.
Sparky1 - Feb 10, 2010 12:11:57 pm PST #7746 of 30001
Librarian Warlord
If she's working that way, more power to her. But it's a luxury, much like having a nanny. And her nanny probably can't afford that luxury.
JZ - Feb 10, 2010 12:16:57 pm PST #7747 of 30001
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Yup, I'm with everyone else. I have never, ever, ever heard of a therapist who didn't charge for a no-show without sufficient advance notice. And it's not a matter of kind or not-kind; my former therapist was one of the kindest people I've ever known, but she had a demanding practice with lots of patients clamoring for her time, split the office rent in an expensive district with three other therapists with similarly demanding practices, and was also juggling all this with two kids and a daily Bay Bridge commute. If she showed up for a scheduled visit and had to sit on her ass for an hour because a patient didn't show, she still had to do the commute and the rent and all the rest of the overhead entailed in any medical practice, so you bet your damn bippy she charged. And I didn't blame her a bit, either.
Sparky's correspondent sounds like an impressive triple threat: jackass, weasel and complete moron. Well played, madam, well played!
brenda m - Feb 10, 2010 12:18:47 pm PST #7748 of 30001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
To - well, I hate to say defend, but - I would assume that Snowmageddon '10 is the kind of circumstance where she is not in fact charging her patients, regardless of any 24 hour policy (that I am dead certain she has). But your contract with, and obligation to, your therapist is quite different than to your nanny.
sarameg - Feb 10, 2010 12:18:56 pm PST #7749 of 30001
Governor just told the State of Maryland to butch the hell up, essentially. I find that funny.
sarameg - Feb 10, 2010 12:24:11 pm PST #7750 of 30001
I've finished vacuuming.
Theodosia - Feb 10, 2010 12:29:33 pm PST #7751 of 30001
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
Therapist, therapize thyself!
Kathy A - Feb 10, 2010 12:30:40 pm PST #7752 of 30001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Want to come over to my place and vacumn? I've got black cat hair all over the blah-beige carpet.
Speaking of cats, I just scheduled her teeth cleaning for next week. I'm taking her in for blood work and urinalysis, as well as the antibiotic shot, on Saturday, and then back for the cleaning on Wednesday. They give 15% discount for any dental work in February, so I'm hoping it won't be more than $300 all told.