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You go to a lab where you can log into their portal and see your lab reports. When you get labs, they belong to YOU. It is YOUR responsibility to get your labs from the lab itself. It is your responsibility to have some ownership in your health and try to understand a little bit with what is going on and what your labs are telling you.
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@jkluv7 I agree most definitely about a patient's responsibility in their own health. However, just looking at numbers on a page may not be enough. It wasn't until I connected with my current nephrologist that I could get the relationship of what different values meant when looking at them as a whole, how they showed differing things going on. Only someone who is trained in that and has the patient's interest at heart to point things out, can do that. I still print out and/or record onto a spreadsheet, my test results. My labs are taken at a commercial lab for the nephrologist, and at my cancer center for oncologist [once a month]. Values differ slightly due to different machines/hydration levels, but very close.
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My nephrologist is the same way. I see my blood work numbers on my portal they have read checks by them and then I wait! And I’ll wait and I wait. She never calls I have to call her. Then she tells me your numbers look pretty good let’s just wait and see. What is wrong with doctors today?