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Doctors want you in and out of the room in 5 minutes or less so they can pull the insurance money dispensing lever again. The last physician I had any respect

Doctors want you in and out of the room in 5 minutes or less so they can pull the insurance money dispensing lever again. The last physician I had any respect for was my own pediatrician and I had consulted him on various issues having gone through several GPs that got even simple diagnoses disastrously, hilariously wrong. Such as telling me the tiny red lump in my finger was an anthrax infection and notifying the health department when it was really a small benign vascularity that was removed in a fifteen minute procedure. Since my pediatrician retired I just do all my own medical research and order my own lab tests. The advantage I have is that I have all the insight into my own body, history, and habits that no doctor these days ever takes the time to find out. You're just a money pinata. Thank you, here are some antibiotics for an unspecified pathogen I didn't culture, Alisha will see you at checkout. Examining the patient? Ain't nobody got time for that.

ohazi 7y ago
How do you order a lab test on your own?
- Judgmentality 7y ago
  In the US there are surprisingly few barriers to this, an extreme rarity in our healthcare system. https://questdirect.questdiagnostics.com/ https://questdirect.questdiagnostics.com/ https://www.walkinlab.com/ https://www.walkinlab.com/ https://requestatest.com/how-it-works https://requestatest.com/how-it-works https://www.healthonelabs.com/ https://www.healthonelabs.com/ https://www.directlabs.com/ https://www.directlabs.com/ I have no affiliation with any of the above, they were just the first to pop up on Google (there are plenty more).
- tim58 7y ago
  Find a local lab, ask about submitting a lab, collect then deliver samples. There isn't anything special that says a blood test has to be requested by a doctor. A lab is rarely going to advertise to consumers directly (some startups do this with mail in tests), but a smaller one will be happy for the bit of extra business.
  - chrismeller 7y ago
    Not necessarily true. In many states if a doctor does not request it your insurance has no obligation to pay. That doesn’t mean you can’t get it done, but you’ll be spending hundreds of dollars out of pocket for it. Also, everywhere I’ve ever lived labs have been a very commercial business. They advertise constantly about it...

ohazi 7y ago

How do you order a lab test on your own?

Judgmentality 7y ago
In the US there are surprisingly few barriers to this, an extreme rarity in our healthcare system. https://questdirect.questdiagnostics.com/ https://questdirect.questdiagnostics.com/ https://www.walkinlab.com/ https://www.walkinlab.com/ https://requestatest.com/how-it-works https://requestatest.com/how-it-works https://www.healthonelabs.com/ https://www.healthonelabs.com/ https://www.directlabs.com/ https://www.directlabs.com/ I have no affiliation with any of the above, they were just the first to pop up on Google (there are plenty more).
tim58 7y ago
Find a local lab, ask about submitting a lab, collect then deliver samples. There isn't anything special that says a blood test has to be requested by a doctor. A lab is rarely going to advertise to consumers directly (some startups do this with mail in tests), but a smaller one will be happy for the bit of extra business.
- chrismeller 7y ago
  Not necessarily true. In many states if a doctor does not request it your insurance has no obligation to pay. That doesn’t mean you can’t get it done, but you’ll be spending hundreds of dollars out of pocket for it. Also, everywhere I’ve ever lived labs have been a very commercial business. They advertise constantly about it...