COLUMN: Appointment Television

We have all made appointments for the dentist, the doctor or to get our nails done. We mark it on the calendar or enter it into our phone as reminders in a busy lifestyle. Some businesses, especially in the medical field, are now enrolling us in text message services to send us reminders. I actually like that idea. It has helped me more than once in the past. For example, my cardiologist office sent me one such text reminder a few years ago that led to me keeping an appointment. This was a follow up visit that had been scheduled six months prior and since forgotten. Thank goodness! Because that visit led to a thorough examination with multiple follow up tests and scans revealing some major problems. Open heart surgery followed a few weeks later. It was a life saving event to hear that ding