Chez Moncef

So I’ve been training for the Cherry Blossom Ten Mile Run and hurt my knee in the process (nothing serious, just slight pain). I went to see a new Primary Care Physician to have it checked out. She recommended I get X-Rays first and come back a week later for a checkup. When I went back, their computers were experiencing technical difficulties, so she could not view the X-Ray results. She said she would call me back with the results and a referral for physical therapy. I hadn’t heard from her, so I called today and found out the X-Ray results were normal and that a card was sent in the mail stating so (!). When I got home today, I found the card, which had a bunch of different medical tests printed on it. The one pertaining to me was highlighted and someone wrote additional comments by hand. The most important part was the recommended daily physical therapy for Iliotibial Band Syndrome - that’s the technical term for what I’ve brought upon myself. It was a web page on the University of Michigan’s Sports Medicine Advisor site. I could not read the “1libr” part of the web page from the handwriting, but I was able to figure it out because I’m well versed in the internets. Someone else might not have had the same experience. Furthermore, the card seems like a waste of postage money, paper and ink to me. A simple e-mail would have been much faster and easier.