Thread by @HollyBlomberg

This explains a LOT. Let me tell you about theAll American experience I had today courtesy of @LabCorp @ProvSwedish & @GastroHealthLLC 1/9

https://twitter.com/fugitivesavant/status/1633710689259855872

As a member of GenX well into middle age, I’m starting to hit those milestones like “Oh it’s time to have a colonoscopy.” Great fun 2/9

I followed through with that ordeal and had no issues except the gastro doc wanted me to get a CBC (complete blood count) drawn afterwards to insure that I wasn’t anemic. “Just got to any lab” he says 3/9

I thought “Well I’ll just go to the lab at my primary care providers office since she referred me for the colonoscopy.” Logical? 4/9

Apparently because the gastroenterologist who ordered the CBC is affiliated with GastroHealth & not Providence Swedish, it DOESN’T MATTER that I am a patient of Providence Swedish & my primary care provider ordered the colonoscopy referral 5/9

The lab at my primary care provider’s office wouldn’t draw this simple blood test and said I had to go to another location 6/9

By this time I’m frustrated and tired but I go to the other location. Crowded, disorganized, impersonal (check-in kiosk). I sat down & waited for about 15 minutes, but I got fed up and left 7/9

I got a text message a little over a half an hour later saying that LabCorp was ready to draw my blood. AITA? Maybe I’m just an old RN who can remember a time when we didn’t have middle men drawing labs, primary care providers & other physicians had nurses in house to do this 8/9

This little story is just a snapshot of the US “healthcare” industry as a whole. Why do we accept corporations like @BlackRock profiting on our very lives? 9/9

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