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‘Urgent’ appointment for results. Bad news?

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Hello. I’m new here so I’m not really sure if I’m posting in the right place. Sorry if I’m not, but I really wanted some advice.

A week ago I had a bone biopsy to check for possible bone mets that was inconclusive on scans. I’ve had a call to go in for a (according to the secretary) ‘urgent’ appointment during clinic next week. Does this guarantee that it’s going to be bad news? I’m desperately hoping ‘urgent’ also means ‘last minute’ because I didn’t have an appointment booked in to get my results, but...I don’t know. Right now my head is spinning and I’ve convinced myself it has to be bad news. It’s just the use of the word ‘urgent’ that’s throwing me off.

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    [@Bookworm52]‍ 

    Hiya

    I know, the terminology they use hardly is reassuring is it! 

    I was called back for an urgent appointment with my doctor and my mind went into overdrive, it's only normal. It did turn out in the end there was something wrong further down the line, but I asked why they said urgent for that appointment and he said it's so you don't book in a routine appointment which has a waiting time of 4-6 weeks. So for me it was a case that they needed to see me sooner than that, that there was nothing imminently wrong and no imminent bad news but that they needed to scale it to urgent so that I wasn't waiting up to a month and a half.

    I know that might not necessarily be reassuring but I hope it helps somehow

    Sending best wishes

    Rose

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    [@Bookworm52]‍ 

    Hiya

    I know, the terminology they use hardly is reassuring is it! 

    I was called back for an urgent appointment with my doctor and my mind went into overdrive, it's only normal. It did turn out in the end there was something wrong further down the line, but I asked why they said urgent for that appointment and he said it's so you don't book in a routine appointment which has a waiting time of 4-6 weeks. So for me it was a case that they needed to see me sooner than that, that there was nothing imminently wrong and no imminent bad news but that they needed to scale it to urgent so that I wasn't waiting up to a month and a half.

    I know that might not necessarily be reassuring but I hope it helps somehow

    Sending best wishes

    Rose

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