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I started getting my lab work done at the local hospital..so far medicare covers them there. I have had some really bad experiences at Lab Corp. One day had a technician who was brand new.. I was her first live patient.. she put on the rubber gloves then poked her inch long nails through them... geeze.. after she tried three times I said NO MORE..got my paperwork and said they better not charge my insurance company. Tried another of their locations and it was sooooo dirty there was no way I was going to have my blood taken there. Might just be my unlucky choice of places..who knows.. Also got a series of questionable results when work was sent to them... from doctor's offices.
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I've always had my tests done at a local hospital or clinic lab, except for the tests that are only done at special labs, (such as the vitamin D test).
I've noticed that for routine testing, the blood draw is either done at my doctors office, (to be sent to the clinic lab), or at the clinic. For really critical stuff, where handling conditions, and time, can be of the utmost importance, (such as the platelet count test that I had done several times this spring, when my platelet count went ballistic, following my surgery in February), I was sent to the hospital lab, and they made the blood draw there. Even though the clinic is part of the hospital, they each have their own lab. That's true for both hospitals that I've used. I have to assume that they, (and my doctor, who used to be a surgeon at that hospital), consider their hospital lab to be more reliable/accurate than their clinic lab.
Tex
I've noticed that for routine testing, the blood draw is either done at my doctors office, (to be sent to the clinic lab), or at the clinic. For really critical stuff, where handling conditions, and time, can be of the utmost importance, (such as the platelet count test that I had done several times this spring, when my platelet count went ballistic, following my surgery in February), I was sent to the hospital lab, and they made the blood draw there. Even though the clinic is part of the hospital, they each have their own lab. That's true for both hospitals that I've used. I have to assume that they, (and my doctor, who used to be a surgeon at that hospital), consider their hospital lab to be more reliable/accurate than their clinic lab.
Tex
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