Should I Have to Pay Doctor Again for Bad Test

Author Message Bearding

When I had a PET scan the doctor called inside a few days and told me to come in to discuss the results. I knew information technology showed something considering they would not tell me anything over the telephone. I was right. (More 10 years ago, no recurrence).

Bearding

Anonymous wrote:Hi my name is Ana and I was wondering if a Dr says you have to schedule a engagement with the Dr is that good results

Depends. Some doctors make you lot come in regardless of whether the results are negative or positive. More than often, withal, they but call you lot in if information technology is non proficient and they experience they need to explicate in person.

Anonymous

I see my lab results before my doctor through patient portal.

Anonymous

Bearding wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Way too much experience hither.

NEVER presume they will call if exam results are not good. Ever become a copy of the lab results, fifty-fifty if they do phone call you or see you in person. The function can fax you the tests or you lot can pick them upwardly in person. If they balk you can always say you are planning on seeing some other doc (preferably in a different field) and want them to have your contempo lab piece of work.

Getting the results is particularly of import if y'all've had a lot of blood tests washed at in one case because it is easier for them to skip over an abnormal examination upshot unintentionally. In whatever case y'all desire the copy should you have to go to another medico later to make sure the 2d doctor doesn't unnecessarily repeat tests that have already accept been done where the starting time results are recent enough to still exist valid.

I have get and then distrusting that things really piece of work the style they should that I proceed copies of prescriptions for lab piece of work to make certain the tests ordered were the ones actually done. Believe information technology or not, this is not always the instance. Hence, my recent mail service on why can't they just practise it right the offset time.

+1000 This is solid advice.

I am going back tomorrow because my doctor failed to order the kidney/liver and cbc tests on my last concrete a few weeks ago. I was monitoring through patient portal. Incredibly frustrating and non the first time something has slipped so I will be searching for a new physician shortly.

I had to fast all over once again because they did t run proper tests and I was the 1 that noticed through patient portal.

So missed 2 days of work vs 1.

Medicine today is a disaster.

Anonymous

Anonymous wrote:Some of you need improve doctors. When my examination results were bad (cancer), my dr. called me at half dozen:30 pm on a Fri nighttime. He certain as hell didn't brand me await till Mon.

I agree. The one fourth dimension I had something interesting show up on my mammogram, they immediately did an boosted browse and had me talk to the radiologist about my results earlier I left the building. I just had an x-Ray of my ribs, and they did the same thing -- had the x-ray read and gave me the results earlier I left the edifice. Thankfully, it was zippo both times. Now, when they tell me that they'll send the results in the mail, I have some hope that ways that zilch apropos jumped out at them.

Also agree well-nigh going to the lab and signing up for an on-line business relationship. I've become an skilful at reading my own bloodwork.

Bearding

I am in the united kingdom of great britain and northern ireland and it should be policy to call with an abnormal consequence but my medico didn't carp telling me my calprotectin levels were aberrant. Very bad on their part. Especially equally they then told me over the telephone that I would demand to exist fast tracked urgently.

i. They should have rung me beforehand to tell me the result was aberrant.
2. They should have told me in person not over the phone that I well-nigh definitely have an IBD

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Anonymous wrote:Not hearing for a long time means proficient results right?

Anonymous

Is information technology bad news if your cancer Dr. calls you in right after a Petscan and you accept already had cancer in the by

Bearding

Anonymous wrote:

Bearding wrote:I take a friend who had surgery to remove a malignant tumor ii weeks agone and she is withal waiting on the pathology written report, which she was told would be available a calendar week ago. She'd kind of like to know if the cancer spread, but no hurry, right? Don't know if the news will be adept or bad, but in any case the report isn't available nevertheless.

Good luck with your results...

Path written report probably will not tell if it is spread...it will focus on the makeup of the tumor, how ambitious, etc.. Other scans will tell if information technology spread. BTDT.

Path report should tell whether lymp nodes are affected (if they took some nodes for pathology during surgery which is what they try to do), and that could predict current or future spread. BTDT, also.

Anonymous

Anonymous wrote:Is information technology bad news if your cancer Dr. calls yous in right after a Petscan and you have already had cancer in the by

Information technology's likely. Their usual turnaround time is a couple days to read the scan, but if they see something truly alarming, they motion much faster.

Anonymous

Usually no news is good news, but i always phone call just to double check afterwards a couple weeks

I exercise not recollect that it is worth being so frivolous nearly such things. Afterward all, in fact, our health is the most valuable resources that we accept. Right at present, but working out a mobile app for doctors will be very just in time. But imagine that your medico will have instant access to your data and will exist able to predict your diagnosis long before you feel bad. And answer the question about how to create a mobile application you can discover on the Cyberspace where already a lot of answers.

Anonymous

Similar some of the PPs I run into my lab results in the portal before the doc gets in affect with me. My GYN called the very next day when my blood work was whacky and when I needed an abdominal sinkgramni got results right abroad too. My girl had an MRI a couple of years ago and we were told it would exist a week earlier results were fix. We got a phone call an hour after we got habitation the aforementioned mean solar day because they found an abnormality.

I did have some other md non call me about my abnormal pap and plant out months later assuming no news was skillful news. Never saw that doc again.

I would not assume no news is practiced news. If you don't hear anything after a calendar week I would call.

Anonymous

Bearding wrote:Fashion too much experience hither.

NEVER assume they will call if test results are non good. E'er go a copy of the lab results, even if they practice telephone call you or run across you in person. The office can fax you the tests or you lot tin can pick them upward in person. If they balk you can always say you are planning on seeing some other dr. (preferably in a dissimilar field) and want them to have your recent lab work.

Getting the results is particularly important if you've had a lot of blood tests done at once because information technology is easier for them to skip over an aberrant test consequence unintentionally. In whatsoever case yous want the copy should you lot accept to go to another medico later to make certain the second doctor doesn't unnecessarily repeat tests that accept already have been done where the first results are recent enough to still be valid.

I accept go so distrusting that things actually work the fashion they should that I keep copies of prescriptions for lab work to make sure the tests ordered were the ones really done. Believe it or not, this is non always the case. Hence, my recent postal service on why can't they merely do it correct the first time.

I second this 1000 times!

Relative was given the Wrong results over the phone. The nurse had a stack to call on and got a bit out of guild between calls, apparently. The nurse told him the results were bad and he needed to come back to the office to meet the dr. for further treatment. He made the engagement and when he went in, the doctor who came in the room had NO idea why he was there. Was all, "didn't think I'd encounter yous so before long. Are things worse?" and then they figured out what had happened.

Anonymous

I signed upwards for my patient portal at my dr role so I tin can come across ASAP.
I also ask when results are expected during appt; if I hear
nothing by that engagement, I email dr and phone call nurse.
You have to be pushy about your ain health.

Bearding

Aye. Phone calls means bad news.

I had an MRI on a Friday morning time, and I had a follow up date scheduled with my neurologist for the adjacent week. Afterward the MRI I got lunch and went in to work. The phone started ringing immediately. It was bad news. The neurologist has scheduled me for an emergency consult with a neuro-surgeon on Monday. He told me the results over the phone, in that location was no time to waste.

Firsthand phone calls e'er means something bad.

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