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Well I just don't see the logic to how looking for certain things should cost more than looking for other things. For example, let's say someone breaks into your house and you call the police. When the police come to do a search, they search for whoever. They don't have a lost of certain people to search for only, trying to keep their costs down.
They search for any intruder and still get paid the same. So why can't doctors operate on that logic and search for any intruder, and still get paid the same regardless?
I mean let's say the doctor tests urine for something else, but then finds something else in the process, that is foreign. Do they just disregard it, even though it could be chlamydia, and don't tell anyone? Instead of only testing for certain things, why not just run a test, period, and whatever comes up, comes up...
Well I just don't see the logic to how looking for certain things should cost more than looking for other things. For example, let's say someone breaks into your house and you call the police. When the police come to do a search, they search for whoever. They don't have a lost of certain people to search for only, trying to keep their costs down.
They search for any intruder and still get paid the same. So why can't doctors operate on that logic and search for any intruder, and still get paid the same regardless?
I mean let's say the doctor tests urine for something else, but then finds something else in the process, that is foreign. Do they just disregard it, even though it could be chlamydia, and don't tell anyone? Instead of only testing for certain things, why not just run a test, period, and whatever comes up, comes up...
because that's not the way it works.
Are you getting retested after your treatment? You should be seen for a follow up.
Well I just don't see the logic to how looking for certain things should cost more than looking for other things. For example, let's say someone breaks into your house and you call the police. When the police come to do a search, they search for whoever. They don't have a lost of certain people to search for only, trying to keep their costs down.
They search for any intruder and still get paid the same. So why can't doctors operate on that logic and search for any intruder, and still get paid the same regardless?
I mean let's say the doctor tests urine for something else, but then finds something else in the process, that is foreign. Do they just disregard it, even though it could be chlamydia, and don't tell anyone? Instead of only testing for certain things, why not just run a test, period, and whatever comes up, comes up...
Each thing they test for requires a different test. Some things require that you don't eat or drink anything within 12 hours of testing. Some require a clean-catch. Some don't. Some require that you drink some nasty-flavored stuff. Some require that you take medicine, some require that you take no medications at all prior to the night before, including a daily vitamin.
There are thousands of things that CAN be tested for with urine. Not all labs do actual testing on all possible illnesses. If you were having tests done on everything, you might need around 3 months before you get the results because you'll have 20 tests done at lab A, 35 at lab B, and so on, all over the country, until you've had your "thousands" of tests. And how much urine do you think you'll need for those thousands of tests? Certainly not a single cup. In addition, what about the tests that require it to be fresh - less than a few hours old? Some of those labs you'd have to actually go to, in order to get those tests done. Some of those labs aren't even in your state, let alone in your doctor's office.
Instead of your house being burglarized, think of it as you own 500 rental properties throughout the country, and one of them has been burglarized. But - you don't know which one it was. Which police department are you going to call? They can't check every apartment in every building, most of them are out of their jurisdiction. So you have to have a whole lot of people checking - and they have to check today, or else the case will get cold and they'll never find out anything at all.
OR...
You can be tested only for the "usual and customary" plus anything the doctor feels is suspect. You rule out the obvious - and then if there are still no answers, you move on to the next set of likely solutions to the mystery.
Well I just don't see the logic to how looking for certain things should cost more than looking for other things. For example, let's say someone breaks into your house and you call the police. When the police come to do a search, they search for whoever. They don't have a lost of certain people to search for only, trying to keep their costs down.
while at the house, the cop doesnt check if you have any unpaid speeding tickets, if you are late on your phone bills, if you are cheating on your wife, if you stole that candybar, etc...
he goes there and checks for what was called in, unless it was obvious like a dead body, he wont dig too far into what else is "present"
Well I just don't see the logic to how looking for certain things should cost more than looking for other things.<>
It's not logic, it's economics.
Did you skip chemistry AND biology on school? Let me refresh you.
Each test involves an analysis typically involving a chemical reaction. The sample you provide is broken down into smaller samples. Some tests can be done with a chem stick, like the pH tests you would have done back then. Other tests involve adding a chemical, then doing a chem stick or similar test involving a color change. Bacteria investigations mean someone looks at a sample with a microscope and counts bugs. Sometime they have to wait and let the bugs grow.
Each test costs money and takes a technician time.
Clearer now?
Treatment for what? The last time I had chlamydia? That was back in 2010.
But ...you did get treated, right?
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