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Re: After hours answering service From: Dennis Wieck (dwieck@bellsouth.net) Tue Dec 19 17:36:04 2006 Messages sorted by: [ date ][ thread ][ subject ][ author ] Next message: Joanne Bulley, MD: "Re: Gen: After hours answering service" Previous message: Gordon Goldman: "after hours answering" In reply to: ainsron: "Re: After hours answering service" Next in thread: Joanne Bulley, MD: "Re: Gen: After hours answering service" In my previous practice my pager had the capability of setting it up like an answering machine. I could record my own message then when a patient called they could record a message and I would receive a page that told me a message had been left. I had my office number call forward to my pager when the office was closed. There also used to be answering machines that can be set up to call a number whenever a message was left ( I used to have one made by ATT but don t know if anybody makes them any more) Dennis J Wieck, MD,FACOG > -----Original Message----- > > From: ob-gyn-l@obgyn.net [mailto:ob-gyn-l@obgyn.net] On Behalf Of Garry E. > > Siegel, M.D. > > Sent: Tuesday, December 19, 2006 8:33 AM > > To: Multiple recipients of list OB-GYN-L > > Subject: Gen: After hours answering service > > What are various people doing these days? We use a traditional answering > > service, whereby our calls after hours go to a voice mail (we make the > > message), and the caller presses a digit to either leave a non-urgent > > voice mail for the on call MD (you get paged to retrieve it) or press > > another digit to get a human, who takes a message and sends out a > > digital page. > > The humans sometimes mess up with names and especially numbers (hey, if > > they're off only 1 digit, well, that's a problem). > > I'm thinking about alternatives for accuracy and perhaps cost savings. . > Next message: Joanne Bulley, MD: "Re: Gen: After hours answering service" Previous message: Gordon Goldman: "after hours answering" In reply to: ainsron: "Re: After hours answering service" Next in thread: Joanne Bulley, MD: "Re: Gen: After hours answering service"

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