Ron Natalie wrote:

How is it not the doctor's fault? The doctor is who SIGNS the medical
and attests to the FAA and the public he has done the examination. It's
up to him to oversee any delegation of that duty he does to his staff?

I agree with Ron here, not only because he has an ethical responsibiity
and his office staff's mistakes are his, too, but because he didn't
seem to give a damn when I informed him of it. Granted, my having to
cancel my checkride is a big deal to me and probably no one else, but
my contacting him about this seemed just to be an annoyance to him. He
clearly didn't want to have to follow up on it (and didn't, by the
way...)

Wiz