An inpatient prep and procedure will never happen - not with this doc anyway. He is in a practice that owns an outpatient endoscopy center, and the procedures aren't done in the hospital.

But I'm so pi$$ed right now, that I'll be looking for a new GI guy I imagine. First of all, his office never called me today to get the whole story, since I had to leave the cancellation notice with the answering service. But I'm sure I'll see that $100 cancellation bill in the mail within days.

I've gone to this practice for about 15 years, and the doc I used to see left the practice, so I was assigned a new one. I only saw him once a few years ago, and then again in January. I have my doubts that he even reviewed my chart. To make a long story short, I have other GI issues which make it next to impossible to ingest more than a few ounces at a time, and I asked for a different prep. I even called his office back last week to again try to get it changed, explaining the situation again to his nurse, and all I got from her was a snippy "well just do the best you can"! I probably don't drink a liter of liquids in an entire day, and I'm supposed to get that much down in an hour, and then again in the morning??? Next to impossible, but I had to give it a try.

So I guess I'll just talk to my primary care doc next time I go in, and see what he suggests. Can't do much else at this point.