Re: F#@&^% Lab lost my blood sample..........  

Group: alt.support.hepatitis-c Date: Sat, Oct 30, 2004, 9:28pm (CST+1)
From: ikiru@nowhere.org (Don)
I cannot believe it, two weeks after I gave a sample for an RNA viral
load check on week 12 of the tx I call the lab and ask them what is up
with my test results? The next day my Dr calls apologizing effusively
telling me the lab 's courier has lost my blood and I would have to give
another, which I did immediately. I spent half an hour talking to the
lab mgr asking why it took them TWO WEEKS before they could inform me
they lost the sample TWO WEEKS AGO! Something about their courier blah
blah blah........ The mgr did promise to track this next one and call me
personally when the results were availabe for theDr.
Anyone else have an inept lab or courier like this? I still cannot
believe the lack of concern or accountability these employees seem to
have. Anyway Ifell better now!
thanx for listening,
bc
That's pretty shabby but I see sh.t like that all the time. I was
reading an article about a doctor performing a circumcision on a newborn
boy who snipped off not just the foreskin but his whole penis. Oops!
Sorry about that.   Somethings I can forgive, but that wouldn't be one
of them.  
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That very thing happened in an Air Force hospital I once worked in, Don.
But there was no snipping, they used a piece of equipment that used
electricity that was to burn the foreskin off.  The surgery technician
didn't ground the machine properly and the surgeon didn't check it
before the procedure.  Big time law suit.  
Elmo

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