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If this story narrative is true as described in the article this is a ground for reporting the primary care physician to the state board for a review. I am not
by lr1970 2y ago
If this story narrative is true as described in the article this is a ground for reporting the primary care physician to the state board for a review. I am not saying it is a malpractice per se, but a clear fail of the doctor's practice. All modern EMR systems (most popular in US is Epic) _automatically_ flag all the results that are out of normal range. A physician assistant should be alerted to this fact and take appropriate actions. Sitting on ER grade emergency for two days and then telling a patient it will take another 3 days to review the results is unacceptable.
- jazoom 2y agoI disagree. Doctors can't be expected to be available 100% of the time. The only doctor to see this patient's result was the pathologist (or should have been before being sent off to the requesting doctor). It had not yet been handed over to the requesting doctor in a fail-proof manner. The pathology company I send my samples to contacts my clinic to ensure we received urgent results. This it's important because there's no guarantee the message ever arrived in the doctor's inbox. If you work in tech you should know this to be the case. The only way to ensure timeliness is for the pathology company to contact the patient directly if they can't verbally hand over to the requesting doctor.