PATHOLOGY REPORTS

When a colonoscopy is performed and specimens are sent to the pathologist the pathology report is returned to our office approximately one week after the colonoscopy.

If you are an established patient of Dr. McConnell’s the pathology report will be delivered to you by the MedVoice system. A message will be recorded for you giving you the results of the pathology report and a recommendation for when you should have your next colonoscopy. When the message is ready for you to retrieve you will receive a phone call from an automated service giving you a phone number to call to retrieve the recorded message. Once you call the number the prompts will ask you to type in you patient identification number. The identification number will be your social security number, or if you did not provide your social security number to our office, your phone number without the area code and “01” at the end. The automated service will call and remind you to listen to your message until your message is retrieved.

If you are a patient of Thunderbird Internal Medicine and you are awaiting results from a pathology report you will receive a phone call with the results approximately one week after the colonoscopy. If you are not available at that time, a message will be left for you on your answering machine informing you of your medvoice id number and a medvoice message will be recorded for you and delivered as above.