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.
--
Peace, Om.

"My mother never saw the irony in calling me a son-of-a-bitch." -Jack Nicholson