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Medical Forum / Diseases and Disorders / Prostate Cancer / August 2005PSA
Hello All, I have sent in prior, and concerning my PSA. Well, I got directions from my Dr. to get a blood draw here in our little town. They balked and asked for a diagnosis....The Lab could not draw blood until they had a diagnosis....I told them I had Prostate Cancer and was getting my yearly test...... Finally they talked to the nurse, got the diagnosis, (PC) and drew my blood. The nurse said she would send me by fax my results..... She would also send the result to my Dr. who requested my blood draw for my now yearly test, and to this day....more than 8 days later, I got my billing, and no test results..... Funny how the bill comes quicker than the result. I really get discouraged to go to Dr.s and to get help when I go to get a simple PSA test, I get my bill before my result. Normally when I get a tire changed, I get the bill and the result. After the amout of time, and getting a bill, and no result, I am not happy with the american medical system... Funny, this is not the first time! Just venting.......... Jeeeeeees John Loomis I'm still crossing my fingers for you. Bev > Hello All, > I have sent in prior, and concerning my PSA. [quoted text clipped - 18 lines] > Jeeeeeees > John Loomis Is it normal for a lab to send results directly to the patient? The info I get is always from the doctor's office. Best of luck to you though on the results. No news in this case is probably good news because your doc certainly would have called if something looked wrong. David S. > Hello All, > I have sent in prior, and concerning my PSA. [quoted text clipped - 18 lines] > Jeeeeeees > John Loomis On August 18, Buttercup's Dad inquired, in pertinent part: > Is it normal for a lab to send results directly to the patient? The info I > get is always from the doctor's office. I believe that labs will not send a copy of a patient's test results directly to him unless the lab has specific instructions from the ordering medic to do so. Frankly, I think it's patronizing and a damned imposition. I have instructed my medics always to include the necessary directions in the lab order, and I do receive the results directly -- except when the lab neglects to follow the order. That happens, and I raise hell when it does. It's just part of what I preach: take charge of your case. Regards, Steve J "You must pay for conformity. All goes well as long as you run with conformists. But you, who are honest men in other particulars, know that there is alive somewhere a man whose honesty reaches to this point also, that he shall not kneel to false gods, and, on the day when you meet him, you sink into the class of counterfeits." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson A patient has the right to access his or her medical record, including his lab results. All one has to do is to full out and turn in a release request at the time a specimen is collected. >On August 18, Buttercup's Dad inquired, in pertinent part: > [quoted text clipped - 21 lines] >you sink into the class of counterfeits." >-- Ralph Waldo Emerson On august 19, SY responded to my rant: > A patient has the right to access his or her medical record, including > his lab results. All one has to do is to full out and turn in a > release request at the time a specimen is collected. AIUI, it depends upon the jurisdiction. Here in Aridzona, the lab idiots insist that the pt cannot have a copy of the lab result unless the medic authorizes it. Yes, they're wrong. Believing in the path of least resistance, I make sure that any lab order includes instructions to copy me. If I forget (after all, I'm on ADT, right?), it is quite convenient to write in the instruction on the order. But I would never admit to having done so...... But if it came right down to it, I'm prepared to ask a court to stuff it up their corporate nose. Has anyone else noticed how patronizing the staff personnel of one's medic can be? Or am I just cranky? Or do I have a perfect right to be cranky? Huh? Regards, Steve J > Hello All, > I have sent in prior, and concerning my PSA. <Considerable text snipped here> > After the amout of time, and getting a bill, and no result, I am not happy > with the american medical system... I'm sorry about this experience of yours, John, but I think it's less the fault of the American medical system than coordination in your town, a "little" town, in your words. In my case I'm receiving PSA checks on a six-month schedule. I take the doctor's orders to the medical center, they draw the blood, and notify my doctor, usually in less than 48 hours. The attendants in the doctor's office often call me personally to inform me of the results and schedule an appointment, which usually lasts no more than 5 or 10 minutes, during which time we express our mutual satisfaction with what he did and how I am responding. The size of the community in which I live is about 75,000. It that much larger than yours? Ken Bland > Hello All, > I have sent in prior, and concerning my PSA. [quoted text clipped - 18 lines] > Jeeeeeees > John Loomis John & all: Have your physician note on your PSA Rx: Copy report to patient, or simply, "CC Patient". My lab draws blood and has a report waiting for me by 11 AM the next day. I get this note added to any and all Rx and orders producing a report. A recent CT scan resulted in a full set of plates as well. (I did have to wait two days though.) You ARE entitled to your own records, but may have to pay for transcription in some cases. Don't let them deny you! Paul Throw HIPPA at them. Tell them you're paying for it and you don't want to share the result with your doctor. Ha! That should cause some dissonance.  SignaturePSA 16 10/17/2000 @ 46 Biopsy 11/01/2000 G7 (3+4), T2c RRP 12/15/2000 G7 (3+4), T3cN0M0 Neg margins PSA .1 .1 .1 .27 .37 .75 EBRT 05-07/2002 @ 47 PSA .34 .22 .15 .21 .32 Lupron 07/03 (1 mo) 8/03 (4 mo), 12/03, 4/04, 09/04, 01/05 PSA .07 .05 .06 .05 non Illegitimi carborundum > Hello All, > I have sent in prior, and concerning my PSA. [quoted text clipped - 18 lines] > Jeeeeeees > John Loomis On August 17, John Loomis wrote of his adverse experience with labs, in pertinent part: > Funny how the bill comes quicker than the result. > I really get discouraged to go to Dr.s and to get help when I go to get a [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > with the american medical system... > Funny, this is not the first time! I reckon that Señor Loomis means funny peculiar, not funny ha ha. This is a fine example of the patronizing attitude patients encounter all too often in their contacts with the medical care "system." I recommend the following response to this outrage: *raise general and particular hell* I have successfully done so in the case of Sonora Quest Labs. We patients are consumers of a service that the medics offer. Perhaps, if enough of us have the intestinal fortitude to insist upon our rights, we will actually enjoy those rights. Every one of the health-care providers with which we deal has competitors. Exploit that fact. In short, as a famous civil-rights activist whose name I disremember said, "agitate, agitate, agitate! But I'm not optimistic. Remember the "God complex" of so many medics, which cows the uninitiated and the fearful. I'm certainly ranting a lot, today. Regards, Steve J "'MD' does not mean 'Medical Deity.'" -- Stephen B. Strum, MD |
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