same here, willy, and most times the doctors will get results back the same day. they might not call till the next day though
and very rarely there's a hiccup and another day goes by. pretty sure though 99% of delays occur in the doctors' offices and not the hospital lab.
Yeah, sometimes it's the doctor too. My Dad one day left the house, got just down the road and saw a blinding flash of light in his vision, he immediately went back home and called his general physician, they got him in that day. The doctor couldn't find anything so he sent him over to have a scan done of his head, told him to come back in a month, call if he had any more problems and if they found anything wrong with the scans they would call him, no news would be good news. So a month passed, Dad didn't have any more vision problems so he returned for the follow up, Mom went with him. Mom told me the story while they were at the doctor's office, she said they meet with the doctor, Dad mentioned he never heard from him so must be the scans were OK, she said the doctor got a strange look on his face and called the nurse in. She said the doctor asked the nurse "Where are the results of Fred's scan?" the nurse replied, "On your desk, I told you when they came in." The doctor shuffled papers around, found and open the file, looked at it and told Mom and Dad, "It shows there might be a tumor in the brain, I'm sending you to an oncologist tomorrow, this can't wait."
That evening I got that dreadful call from Mom and Dad asking me to come up to their house right away, wouldn't tell me why, when I got there they told me the story and Dad asked if I would drive them the next day to the city to see an oncologist to get his diagnoses, that's how and why I was there when they told Dad he had cancer. We were there for hours, they immediately sent Dad to get a another scan, the doctor wanted to see the scan while Dad was there that day. A few hours later we were back in his office, the doctor showed us the first scan done a month before side by side with the scan done that day, in a month, the tumor grew from a pin pricked size dot to the size of a dime. They had lost precious time in that month, they could have started right away with targeted radiation and chemo but now Dad faced having part of his brain removed ASAP, as the doctor described, a piece the size and shape of a thick slice of pie because the tumors branch out like roots of a plant so they try to take as much as they can without doing too much harm.
And just a few years after Dad passed I fell and smashed my foot, but I lost my leg because my doctor didn't treat the infection that developed until it was too late and it had gone into the bones in my foot killing the marrow, the bones were dead and the infection was spreading up my leg.
So doctors aren't God's, they screw up too, more times then most of us know. I don't have a lot of faith in them and I question them, I'm pretty pushy with them and I've ...... a lot of them off but damn it, it's my health and they are getting paid because I'm there, they aren't doing me a favor, it's the other way around, they work for me.
