Re: dueling lab tests

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At 09:48 PM 1/4/06, el wrote:

>Actually, this is done all the time, and is usually no big deal. When I

>receive a lab scrip for a test I've already done recently, I tell the

>doctor approximately when I had that tes,t and ask whether it's really

>necessary to test it again so soon. (Usually, they cross it off the

>list.)

Thanks, . My problem was that what I thought was going to be a short

appointment turned out to run several hours and I was anxious to get home

so I didn't read the lab slip when she handed it to me on the way out. I've

done the call and actually we're not going to do any of the tests she asked

for right now. The Thyroid and A1c will be by the original endo and the

lipid and cholesterol stuff we can do, but I'd prefer she first saw my old

records on that (which she'll get when they get my records from my former

PCP).

I'll get that all straightened out eventually.

sky