This is already the case, if you have the "readies".
Using private labs, I mean, not supermarkets. But I
thought, in the UK, that most GP's would probably ask
for any test, (using their local supermarket lab?), on
their patients, just to cover themselves!
David Brown
--- Mohammad Al-Jubouri <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
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It may be a good opportunity for labs if they were to
open a walkin laboratory service where patients self
-refer themselves for phlebotomy and any lab test they
like, provided that they pay for it. A laboratory
report and interpreative advice can then be sent to
the patient to take to their GP if necessary. If we
don't do it, a supermaket will.
regards
Mohammad
Dr. M Al-Jubouri, Consultant Chemical Pathologist
>From: Mike Hallworth
>Reply-To: Mike Hallworth
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Requests for venepuncture alone
>Date: Wed, 21 May 2003 05:51:13 -0400
>
>I'd be interested in any views people have of the (in
my experience)
>increasingly frequent problem of the patient who
turns up wanting blood to
>be taken and spun, then the serum returned to him/her
so they can send it
>off to some outfit they have found on the internet
who will do "blood
>profiling"/tests for autism/tests for MS etc etc.
>
>They're usually happy to pay us to do it - but that's
not the point. I
>normally try and refer them back to their GP, who has
usually given up
>trying to dissuade them.
>Just say no? Do it and let them have the serum on the
grounds of "their
>body, their fluids, their choice"?
>
>Thoughts gratefully appreciated.
>
>Mike
>
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