| Millions of people visit physicians and hospitals each | | | | some blood and see what the lab has to say. This |
| year for wellness check-ups as well as for help | | | | is really a sad thing, because most often the |
| with various health concerns. Most doctors will | | | | support staff will receive dozens of blood work-up |
| order blood work to help them determine any | | | | assays daily or weekly and may not be able to |
| possible imbalances, or pertinent disease markers | | | | properly respond in a timely fashion, or with |
| and risk analysis. The blood work-up fees are | | | | enough information to help the patient understand |
| often extremely high due to the involvement of | | | | the results. |
| insurance companies and their rates. Sadly, | | | | Believe me, it is NOT because these medical |
| physician office and hospital overhead plays a role | | | | professionals and care givers are trying to avoid |
| in the cost of these laboratory tests. Doctors | | | | you, or want you to be in the dark, they are just |
| certainly have to pay their assistants and support | | | | overcrowded and often very over worked. The |
| staff, the rent, and utilities and huge malpractice | | | | laboratories who provide the blood analysis |
| insurance rates, to name a few operational costs. | | | | services have gotten wise due to the |
| Because of these high overheads they most | | | | overabundance of phone calls relating to blood |
| often pass along a margin of profit that includes all | | | | test results and interpretations. Doctors normally |
| of their daily expenses by percentages. Some | | | | do not have the luxury of time to explain a simple |
| doctors charge more or less than the suggested | | | | blood analysis thoroughly, although patients will |
| retail cost of blood panel workups. | | | | dearly cling to anything their physician may offer |
| Due to rising insurance rates and co-pay | | | | in the way of an explanation. Most often there is |
| programs, many patients are paying higher fees | | | | not enough time for the doctor to spend with |
| out of pocket. These higher fees often keep | | | | each patient due to the number of cases they |
| patients from visiting their doctor's offices as | | | | have to deal with each day. |
| often as they might like. Because of the fact that | | | | Recently one of my friends who happens to be a |
| less people are regularly seeing their family | | | | Medical Doctor had to agree to see several |
| doctors, more people inadvertently are developing | | | | hundred more patients because his partner died |
| conditions that go undiagnosed. Several very wise | | | | of a massive heart attack without warning. Many |
| blood analysis laboratories have realized that too | | | | many doctors are suffering themselves and they |
| often blood tests are showing that if a person | | | | do not have the luxury of time to spend on their |
| had come in months earlier a disease state may | | | | own well-being. Hopefully, that will change, but in |
| have been prevented. In order to respond to the | | | | America we are a highly-stressed nation overall |
| needs of the patients directly, there are now | | | | and we do not schedule relaxation into our daily |
| some alternative ways for the average person | | | | lives frequently enough. |
| with or without insurance to find out their personal | | | | If you wish to have a common CBC panel, or |
| level of health. | | | | some other type of tests to help determine if |
| Direct Access Testing is now a real thing in | | | | you are suffering from diabetes, anemia,allergies, |
| America. Professional laboratories that work with | | | | a hormone imbalance, ulcers, infection, stress, |
| the thousands of medical doctors and hospitals in | | | | prostate concerns, mononuclesis, cardiac panel, |
| the United States and Abroad are now offering | | | | nutritional deficiencies, thyroid disease, how your |
| direct blood tests to patients. It is all legal and a | | | | liver, gallbladder, digestion are, or if you are a |
| fabulous advancement in the ability of the patient | | | | candidate for cancer, HIV, Hepatitis, or other |
| to take control of their own wellness plan. If you | | | | diseases, you can visit a convenient lab to |
| do not know what your body is suffering, you will | | | | schedule a simple blood draw. If you just want a |
| not know how to care for it. | | | | fabulous Wellness Analysis you can have that too. |
| Since finding this gem of information and wanting | | | | Some tests are available as Home Tests and can |
| to share it with as many people as possible, I | | | | be done in the comfort of your own home |
| have become a health care provider that will help | | | | quickly and easily. You have the choice to involve |
| facilitate the process. If your doctor's waiting | | | | your family medical doctor or to ask questions of |
| room is overcrowded and you have to wait too | | | | the medical doctors who work at the laboratories. |
| long for a simple check-up, why not take some | | | | They will gladly explain the findings and encourage |
| measures to help determine your level of health | | | | you to seek medical assistance if necessary. |
| between office visits. I am not trying to stop | | | | Since this forum is not meant to be used to |
| your physician from making money, what I am | | | | advertise any particular business, I cannot give |
| attempting to do is to open your eyes about | | | | you the names and phone numbers of the |
| your rights and opportunities. | | | | participating laboratories. However, if you wish |
| Working at the hospitals and clinics with dozens of | | | | further information you may contact my office |
| Medical Doctors through the years, I have seen | | | | directly, or write to me through the website |
| some doctors who make patients wait two hours | | | | below. 847/836-8345 |
| for a ten minute visit, only to say, we will draw | | | | Stay informed...stay well! |