My hair-follicle test came back earlier than expected and was all clear and I am hired.😊
And yet the below post will remain up as a cautionary tale for those companies using these little one-or-two-person-manned, local-branch labs for Quest and LabCorp, who have replaced nurses and MDs with untrained medical assistants for low pay, no oversight, and no way to contact the local lab office directly for any questions or concerns, just a 1-800 number.
This is what happens, Quest and LabCorp, when you cut your staff - particularly nurses - to save yourselves a buck.
Nothing against medical assistants, I know some great ones - but I also know they are overworked and asked to do things outside of their level of training at low pay.
In fact, this is not my first run-in, in this town, with an error from a medical assistant that was asked to do more than she was trained for at low pay, in fact - which nearly put me in the ER, until the doctor caught her error.
I understand the astronomical cost of healthcare and the need to operate on a shoestring budget, but at some point - and it won't be by me - somebody is gonna get legal and you'll really have to pay big bucks for doing so anyway - or worse, the patient will end up with not just job loss, but in the ER with injury, or even death.
Just something to think about ...
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