Daisax, I had a similar experience with my DH, he went in to urgent care with "flu symptoms", they took one look at him, and called for an ambulance, even though urgent care was only at the other end of the building complex from the e.r.! Nothing like paying hundreds of dollars for an ambulance trip that never leaves the parking lot! (Yes, he did have a triple bypass three days later, so they were smart to insist...)
I feel better now, thanks y'all....
And had your husband had a massive heart attack as they were walking him across the parking lot, or pushing him across the parking in a wheelchair, and they lost precious moments of emergency treatment that would have been available in the ambulance because they had to run the rest of the way across the parking lot while your DH declined physically, what would your reaction have been? I'm going to guess it would have been something along the lines of "Why didn't they put him in an ambulance to take him there so if something happened the EMTs could have started treatment immediately instead of having to wait for someone to run him the rest of the way across the parking lot?" which would be followed by a HUGE lawsuit. Ambulance transportation to other facilities is usually a state regulation, not a provider choice. We have a nursing home across the street from our hospital, probably literally 500 feet away from the front door, that we have to call an ambulance to bring people to. We could literally roll people there in a wheelchair, but what if they fell out of the chair, died during the trip.... Then everyone would be screaming "How could they think it was OK to
roll someone across the street to the nursing home???". Medical people are generally damned if they do and damned if they don't. And pretty much everyone thinks we are after money and co-pays, because, my God, wouldn't you want to deal with sick cranky people who think you are an incompetent thief all the time, with them coughing and puking on you, to make a $45 co-pay which probaly doesn't cover your overhead anyhow, and have the added benefit of them talking about what an incompetent thief you are on an Internet message board?
OP, if it was something really serious, you would have been told to "come in now and bring someone with you", or you would have been told "you need to go to the emergency room now". My guess is that if there is something minor showing on the CT scan, but the MD would like to speak to you in person, perhaps show you the CT scan films and point out the area at issue, discuss a treatment plan. There may also be nothing on the CT scan, and he wants to tell you that in person and discuss your next alternative in regard to treating whatever your issue is. My doctor would never have me come to his office to say "everything is fine, now go home". He'd tell me that over the phone, to allay my anxiety. Your MD may be different. If it was me, I'd get there as soon as I could to see what the deal was. If, in fact, your MD wanted to see you to tell you in person that everything was fine, wothout any further discussion of next steps, tretament plan or whatever, I'd have a conversation with him/her at
that point with regard to how you wish to have medical results delivered to you.