Does anyone do this? do you stop somewhere to get blood work done and sent to home doctor? urgent care vs quest diagnostics vs emergency room.we do 3 week chemos
DW needs frequent bloodwork done - none of which is related to chemo - and it is no problem. Almost every employer now days does drug testing for new employees so most towns of any size have a medical lab. We have a number of different signed lab work orders scanned in the computer and when we need one, we select one that has the tests we need (or alter one to include the test she needs), type in a fresh date and print it. Haven't had to get a *real* new lab order signed in over 10 yrs. Labs accept our printouts and fax the results to whatever number we type on the work order. We've used hospital labs a couple of times but try not to. Many of those have inordinately complicated sign in procedures (as if you were signing yourself into the hospital).
When it's time for bloodwork, we check the yellow pages in a cg office under "medical laboratories" and then I drop their addresses, as well as the cg address, into the mapping pgm to see which is closest and print myself a routing. NBD.
I'm not on chemo but I have to have blood labs done every 4-8 weeks. When traveling I go to one of the national labs or the hospital lab. I carry the lab request with me and present it to the lab. I've never had a problem. Lindy
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