"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