Wrong tests, errors, how lousy is the quality ?

[Travelassie]

Originally Posted by suzy_q2010

If multiple people, including some with expertise in the field, tell you that your story is questionable, you might want to consider that just perhaps the story is wrong.

As has been pointed out, cultures take time. No one would even believe the results of a culture reported before the expected amount of time had passed.

It makes me think your friend made up a story and said she quit when perhaps she got fired.

No lab could get away with what you described.

Not for very long, anyway. Labs that put out compromised, or false patient test results will not be in business very long, as they will lose customers. And a number of the complaints I used to investigate came from doctors who questioned a lab's testing practices because the results didn't make any sense to them. Getting consistently normal CBC, or glucose results on all one's patients would make any provider question a lab's practices, as would getting consistently "no growth" urine cultures,especially the same day the samples were sent.

I just suspect the OP doesn't know what she is talking about.

[nmnita]

Originally Posted by newtovenice

Those who believe the scenario could NOT have happened are in cognitive dissonance. But that's OK.

What happens in health"care" is FRIGHTENING. Mistakes happen all the time. And they have happened to you. No doubt about. You just weren't aware.

No one is saying mistakes do not happen, but we are questioning the frequency of what she is claiming.

[Travelassie]

Originally Posted by Travelassie

Not for very long, anyway. Labs that put out compromised, or false patient test results will not be in business very long, as they will lose customers. And a number of the complaints I used to investigate came from doctors who questioned a lab's testing practices because the results didn't make any sense to them. Getting consistently normal CBC, or glucose results on all one's patients would make any provider question a lab's practices, as would getting consistently "no growth" urine cultures,especially the same day the samples were sent.

I just suspect the OP doesn't know what she is talking about.

Let me correct this. I didn't mean the OP, who was just relating her bad experiences with her healthcare, of course this needs to be addressed and corrected. I meant the poster who told the "bad lab"story".