Where's The Lab Report

Journal Entry 

Date:    April 8, 2013 2:55 PM
Topic:    Where's The Lab Report

Back on March 27th Dad’s primary care physician, Dr. Lee, called the lab that did Dad’s initial biopsy and talked directly to the pathologist.  She requested that they retest for asbestos and the pathologist agreed to do it but said the results had to be delivered to the original doctor, Dr. Gowani.

We’ve been calling Dr. Gowani’s office for the last week asking for the results to be sent to Dr. Lee.  Well, turns out that the tests were never done.  After many phone calls to Gowani’s office Jeannie finally got someone to check on it and they did not have the results.  So Jeannie called the lab that was supposed to run the test.  The lab said that they never received the request.  After the lab staff talked to the Pathologist they found out he forgot to enter it into the system after talking to Dr. lee.  He then forgot about it entirely.  Now what if someone’s life depended on it?  Oh wait, it does!  it was a good thing Jeannie was persistent and kept calling.