Modern Medical Malpratice

Dear: Andrea This is a courtesy reminder that you have an up coming appointment at Dermatology Associates on 12​/11/2025 at 11:00 AM EST in our PORTLAND office. Please log on to the patient portal for more details. If you need to cancel or reschedule your appointment, please call our office at 207-775-2527. I received the message shown above in my email this morning. Okay, fine , it's two days from now and they want to make sure I'm coming. That's reasonable. But wait -- it's not really fine, since just yesterday I got a phone call from the very same doctor's office reminding me of the very same appointment.  That call came a few days after I received a text reminding me of that appointment. Which followed a text I received about three weeks ago reminding me of the same appointment. A similar onslaught of reminders comes to me from every one of my doctors and my dentist. It's annoying as hell and I believe it to be a form of medical malpractice. So why do they do it? Are more people forgetting to cancel their appointments more often these days or have physicians hired staff to handle their "social media" and this is it? I always confirm when asked to confirm for fear that my appointment will be given away to someone worthier who will confirm. But one of these days when I'm feeling particularly healthy, I might just confirm and confirm again and confirm for a third and fourth time and then just not show up.  That'll fix their wagon.