AMEN TO THAT LORI---------- THESE LABS ARE SCREW UPS MUCH OF THE TIME ! THEY
HAVE THROWN MY SPECIMENS OUT MANY TIMES, THEN OTHER TIMES DIAGNOSS ME WITH
SOMETHING--THEN AS I'M BEING TREATED, CHECK BLOOD AND URINE AGAIN AND GET A
TOTAL DIFFERENT READING AND CHANGE THE DRUGS ONCE AGAIN! --- WE DO NEED THEM
BUT LIKE ALL JOBS --- THEY HAVE GOOD WORKERS THAT CARE AND OTHERS THAT JUST
WANT A PAYCHECK AND COULD CARE LESS IF YOU SUFFER OR DIE.
DAN H.
Lori Michaelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Wheel... I think Bill's itemized list only contained a urinalysis. That is
just usual protocol. A culture and sensitivity has to be specifically ordered
by a doctor. Whether outside the hospital or inside the hospital. If I drop
off a urine specimen at my doctor's office ... they will only do a urinalysis
unless the doctor orders the culture and sensitivities. Further, they will not
automatically these sensitivities unless it is firmly ordered. Laboratory
technicians think they are superfluous if only such and such shows up on the
culture. They take it upon themselves to do or not to do sensitivities. Which
is wrong. They also get paid the same for doing extra so why bother to do the
sensitivities which take another 48 hours -- some more than often often think.
John ... my goodness are you kidding? At first I thought you were being
facetious and sarcastic but maybe not. Maybe you missed my post on the
laissez-faire attitude of laboratory technicians. The real facts are --that
they are supposed to meet very high standards but they don't! JCAHO only
visits twice a year. Whooopie.
They don't get results mixed up? I have lived in three different states and
have had so many laboratory errors made that it is scary. Because my husband
was once a chief lab technician... even back in the 70s he would see how lazy
his staff would be and he put a stop to it when he saw it but that is not the
norm!
Since my husband is able to read laboratory results (be it urine or blood)
... he has caught so many mistakes. Blatant ones. Even some of my doctors
have thanked him for pointing things out that they just overlooked and wrote
out the wrong antibiotic for me because of that.
Some of them even do something called "sink testing" which is more common
than not. There is a reason it has a name -- they get lazy and dump samples
down the sink. I kid you not.
And there are telltale signs that only a laboratory technician or a chief
laboratory technician would recognize that something is rotten in Denmark when
certain results are this or that or do not come back for 10 days, etc..
I am not saying this because I want to disagree with you but because I have
worked with doctors and nurses who also see it happen all the time as well.
Perhaps you were being sarcastic however.
Lori
On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 11:02 AM, John S. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Yup, they use test strips and some have backup tests. The important
part is that you get a complete battery of tests performed fast and accurately.
These labs meet very high standards and don't get results mixed up. that has
to be worth $15.
john
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From: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [email protected]
Sent: Tuesday, July 1, 2008 8:33:44 PM
Subject: Re: [QUAD-L] Urinalysis costs_Urine test strips
I don't believe hospitals or labs do the dip test as much as they do
cultures and microscope inspection before releasing the information. I don't
believe the use the strips as you do. Strips don't tell you which bacteria you
have either.
Am I wrong?
Best Wishes
In a message dated 7/1/2008 6:50:07 P.M. Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL
PROTECTED] writes:
When I eventually found out by myself that the reason I was having so many UTIs
was because my urine pH level was always too high. It was always like a 7.5
(too alkaline and great and friendly for bugs to grow) rather than a preferred
'6'.
Recently my husband had to make a big medical products order and he ordered
those urine test strips. We ordered a jar of 100 and they came out to be $.28
apiece. They test 11 different things (nitrates, blood, pH level, etc. etc.
etc. etc.) and is the same thing as a urinalysis.
At the time, my husband commented that labs charge around $30 for urinalysis
and Bill just showed us that his hospital bill charged $99 plus dollars for a
urinalysis! In real reality (not to be redundant) ... it only costs about 10
or $.15 to dip one of those in urine.
Medical system = highway robbery.
Lori Michaelson
Age - 43
C4/5 complete quad, 28 1/2 years post
Tucson, AZ
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