"OmManiPadmeOmelet" > wrote in message
...
> In article >,
> "Dee Randall" > wrote:
>
>> "OmManiPadmeOmelet" > wrote in message
>> ...
>> > In article >,
>> > "Dee Randall" > wrote:
>> >
>> >> >
>> >> > Why not go talk to some of these docs who are ordering these tests
>> >> > in
>> >> > your hospital and find out why they are ordering them?
>> >> >
>> >> > Boron
>> >>
>> >> OTOH, I had a CT a few weeks ago, signed papers for it, etc. when I
>> >> read
>> >> the
>> >> fine print (on the front page) that this CT would NOT be done without
>> >> the
>> >> submission of proof of blood test level of one particular thing,
>> >> which I
>> >> do
>> >> not remember at the moment.
>> >> This was an imaging facility/office where people come and go all day,
>> >> but
>> >> I
>> >> was not asked if I had had this blood test as a requirement for
>> >> getting
>> >> the
>> >> CT.
>> >>
>> >> In my case I should be asking the doctors at that facility why in the
>> >> h....
>> >> absolutely no one had ordered this test prior, or reception personnel
>> >> didn't
>> >> required that I had the papers to prove that I had had it done.
>> >>
>> >> Why was no one ordering them?
>> >> It goes both ways.
>> >> Dee Dee
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >
>> > Creatinine... It's a kidney function test.
>> > If the CT was being done using x-ray contrast media, that stuff is
>> > eliminated by the kidneys and they dose it based on whether or not you
>> > have normal renal function.
>> >
>> > If they were not injecting you with dye, you did not need that blood
>> > test.
>> >
>>
>> Yes, this was another one of the screw-ups. When I emailed them the
>> prescription they said I didn't need a contrast; but when I got there,
>> they
>> said the prescription called for contrast. This is another time my
>> attention to detail helped, I had a copy of my prescription and it did
>> not
>> call for contrast, but he said, we do contrast in cases like yours. The
>> nurse reading the prescription when I emailed it, if it had called for a
>> contrast, could have alerted me to getting a current BUN.
>>
>> I used to be a court-reporter and this is the type of thing gets more
>> complicated the more you discuss it and question what happened-- AARRGH.
>> Dee Dee
>>
>
> You need to send a formal complaint to the facility's CEO.
>
> Seriously.
> --

To get involved further with any people at the medical facility takes
moments/hours/days off my life that would not be worth it to me. My skin is
not thick enough for it. I think there is a time in life when we all feel a
little fragile even though we still have a tiger inside. This is that time
for me.
Thanks for your support.
Dee Dee