Re: what do you mean by use an independent lab?

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A lab that's tied to a particular hospital or clinic rather than a big chain of labs. Tony calls the big corporate labs like Labcorp, "MacLabs". They are to testing what Macs is to nutrition. They do everything by a pre designed menu of procedures. The docs can't walk in and look at your samples the way they can at a hospital. The technicians aren't really interested in what they're growing unlike a microbiologist in a hospital who has a little more leeway in testing and a little more understanding of what the doctor's trying to figure out. pennyjulie levitt <knightshotter@...> wrote: When you suggest getting certain lab work or fungal testing or whatever done at an independent lab vs say LabCorp, what are you talking about. Is this something in

Europe but not in US. My doctors typically use the big labs to do cultures, blood work, whatever. Please let us know what you are talking about. Thanks

[Guest guest]

esoterix's infectious disease lab in texas was one of the few labs that was doing testing right. Shoemaker back east found them. Unfortunately, they were recently bought out by LabCorp, so they're gone. penny julie levitt <knightshotter@...> wrote: When you suggest getting certain lab work or fungal testing or whatever done at an independent lab vs say LabCorp, what are you talking about. Is this something in Europe but not in US. My

doctors typically use the big labs to do cultures, blood work, whatever. Please let us know what you are talking about. Thanks

[Guest guest]

The problem with labs is they do basic simple tests and don't look

closely enough at the danger a simple organism that's highly

abtibiotic resistant can cause.-Your so called simple staph the gram

negative you refer to is actually knows as coagulase negative staph-

it's all over your body inside and out and everytime you challenge

it it in anyway it responds, ITS BASICALLY BECOME HIGHLY ANTIBIOTIC

RESISTANT AND JUMPS AT EVERYTHING IT FEELS IS CHALLENGING IT- HENCE

ALL YOUR PROBLEMS. The MRSA has encoded all it's tricks and traits

to this other staph and you can't even take a breath without it

firing up.

-- In infections , " julie levitt "

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> When you suggest getting certain lab work or

> fungal testing or whatever done at an independent

> lab vs say LabCorp, what are you talking about. Is

> this something in

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> Europe but not in US. My doctors typically use the

> big labs to do cultures, blood work, whatever.

> Please let us know what you are talking about.

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> Thanks

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