My office message center can be reached at any time at 412-682-1259.  If you call at either 25 minutes after the hour in the morning, or at 5 minutes before the hour in the afternoon, I may be between patients and will often pick up the phone directly.  Otherwise, please leave a message on my voice mail.  Regular calls during weekdays (but not evenings or weekends) are almost always returned by me the same day.

 

     Emergencies: If you are a patient who has been seeing me for ongoing care and there is an emergency or urgent matter, then please call my answering service at (412) 563-9852 and ask to have me paged.  I can usually get back to you promptly, although occasionally this might take several hours. If a situation arises which is so urgent that it should not wait for my return call, you can get immediate advice from the Emergency Room at WPIC (Western Psych) at (412) 624-2000.  If there is a serious crisis, you should go immediately to the nearest hospital emergency room if you are able to do so, or call 911 (or your community's equivalent) if you are not able to get to an emergency room immediately.