Reminder of annual exam

I get a post card or call from the optometrist, dentist, the vet, but I don't get a reminder from my GP. I'm half way through my fifthties and have been going once a year (not the same date, but me calling and making an appointment). Seems odd to me............how many men get a reminder?

A practice nurse emails me when I am due for my semi-annual travel inoculations, which makes me visualise bending over with pants down at her mercy.

I may have gotten a reminder for my 2nd annual with my current pc, I can't remember.

(I don't get reminders for my semi-annual skin exam, as I book the next one right after having one, since her schedule fills up quickly)

If you are getting reminders for an annual physical, i suspect it's because of 1 or both of 2 things. By keeping everyone's annual on the same month, it helps them fit everyone into the schedule nicely in an organized fashion. Pushing it out a month because you forgot to schedule it might be potential chaos to them if they usually book so many physicals the following month. So for that, they are trying to keep you out of the busy month & remain in the slower month.

Another reason they send you a reminder is money. They want to get your money.

I got a pre-recorded message from the clinic stating the day and time of my appt, and to call if I had a conflict. They gave me about a week's notice, and coincidentally I'd just found out I had to be out of town, thus missing my exam. I called back right away and the receptionist was quite rude, almost acting surprised that I would cancel. Surely I haven't been the only person to do so.

When I'm leaving my annual physical exam, I always book the appointment for 12 months out for the next one. My doctor always books up way in advance for full physicals, so this is really the only way to ensure that I actually get an appointment every 12 months or so. Then several weeks prior to my appointment I'll start to receive emails and automated calls reminding me of the appointment.

I get a reminder.

I receive an automated telephone message a few days before my appointment.

I get an automated call and email message usually a few days in advance. I have on rare occasions managed to forget the exam date, which I feel terrible about, as it is unfair to the doctor. Thankfully, the doctor and office staff are understanding.

Julie

I get a text from both my PCP (Internist) and OBGYN. I reply to confirm my appointment via text or email.

I always get an reminder phone call an few days before hand.

I don't get a reminder and my doctor never brings it up. I've had one very brief physical in the 16 years I've been her patient. I did get a note about getting a PAP test a couple years ago, but did not book one as I cannot get up on her table and lie down due to mobility issues.

I get a reminder email but not phone call.

Never get an annual reminder. Just have to call myself.

Neither my wife nor myself receive reminders that we are due for our annual physicals from our doctor's office. However, since my wife is enrolled in her employer's voluntary wellness program, she receives an e-mail from HR to remind her to schedule her annual physical about six weeks before she is due for one. But we always schedule our conjoint physicals about three or four months before we are due, so she just ignores the reminder.

We do receive an e-mail, a text message, and a phone call a few days before our appointment to remind us, and to instruct us to reschedule if we can't make it.

My old doctor used to make the next appointment before I left his office and call me for a reminder. My new one(s) begin messaging me on their website to call and set up an appointment so I would never know it's time if I didn't check for messages on their site. The VA sends me post cards and calls when it's time to set up an appointment but until a couple years ago they also set up the next one as I left the office.

Like many other people here, I never get a reminder. Growing up, I was in the habit of seeing my PCP every year, and I continued that practice when I got out on my own. However, the last doctor I saw (I've switched PCPs a few times due to changes in insurance and doctors moving too far out) told me to come back when I was 35. (I was 30 when I saw him.) I certainly wouldn't have expected to get any follow-up calls for a routine checkup from that practice.

Mine calls me to make appointments_.

Early 50s here. I've never gotten a reminder for an annual exam, but every year around this time they send me a lovely flyer in a discreet business envelope describing the benefits, joys and wonders of having a colonoscopy. I know I should get one, and why, but the descriptions of the procedure from other Zity members as well as aged colleagues really stokes my procrastination gene. I'd sooner undergo @SwitchableSusie's rough ride.

Maybe if they sent a picture of one of their technicians who looked like this I'd sign up sooner rather than later:

https://imgur.com/r/cosplaygirls/9fpt7t4

I had them trained to not ask me to sign up for that but now I have a new doc at the VA so it will likely start all over again. I have seen my wife go through the agony of the prep several times Which becomes my agony too as she gets up about every 10 minutes all night long to go worship the great porcelain god. Then worries all the way to the torture lab in my car that she may not make it without shitting her pants. That's the part I can't bring myself to do along with drinking that half gallon of liquid drain cleaner. The idea of them impaling me on the table doesn't really bother me that much.

Get a colonoscopy. It is one of the few procedures that can prevent cancer. Suprep is way easier than the old gallon of whatever and some places don't even do that any more -- my sister just took OTC laxatives for hers last year.

My PCP sends me email and robocall reminders for appointments, but I have to schedule them and they only take appointments about 4 months ahead. I'd like to be able to set up a physical automatically but I'll just have to make do with a Google calendar reminder.

I see most of my doctors more than once a year, so I set my next appointment before I leave after my current exam. Even my dermatologist will set an appointment a year in advance. All my doctors have computerized messaging systems to send me reminders, no post cards anymore.

My dermatologist schedules my next appointment for one year later while I'm still in the office. They do call a few days before my appointment to remind me. My PCP assumes I'm a big boy and will schedule my appointment when I'm ready or as needed. I usually wait until my blood pressure medicine runs out of renewals before I call to schedule. I agree, it does seem odd that most PCP's don't send reminders to schedule appointments. Just reminders of appointments already made.

I don’t get scheduling reminders from my doctor either, which probably contributes to my infrequent exams. My company does wellness screens every year and I get tons of reminders to schedule those.

There might be some sort of reminder in MyChart app if they push them out that way, but I’ve only seen reminders for periodic cholesterol screenings and for flu shot and tetanus booster.

My eye doctor does send postcards, and I always schedule next dental visit before I leave my appointment, so no need to remind me.

All providers call or text with appointment reminders a day or two before the scheduled appointment.