We’ll Call You If Results Are Abnormal…

You go to the doctor and you’re sent for blood tests. Almost always, we’re told, “we’ll call if we see something wrong.” So, we wait and if we don’t hear from the doctor’s office, we figure that everything is ok. Or is it?

According to this press release, Physicians frequently fail to inform patients about abnormal test results , not hearing about your results doesn’t mean there’s nothing wrong – it could be that the results were lost, not seen, or physicians believe their patients were informed by someone else.

Moral of the story? Follow up. If you’ve had any kind of tests, not only blood tests, follow up after a couple of weeks if you’ve not heard back. Most likely, you’ll hear that all was normal – but why take a chance?

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