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RE: Representatives of the most humane profession
Something that does continue to worry me is indeed the results received from the lab on their end. It's obviously possible a mistake could of been made, or someone working there who doesn't care. It's also concerning the blood test results were wrong from not just you but also your partner, it just shows the sloppy work being done at the expense of our health.
I didn't write it exactly like that, but you're actually completely right. Back then, a year and a half ago, not only were both of our blood pressure readings wrong, but so were the subsequent lab tests. And this was the reason the problems with the then GP began. Because I asked for a new referral for other laboratory tests, since these were obviously wrong. Which, according to her, I had no right to. However, half of them were subsequently done in one (but different) laboratory, the other half - in another, even in the regional town 25 km away and surprise: the results were quite different.
It is an open secret in Bulgaria that laboratory results are often not correct. I think it is even a matter of luck to come across a laboratory that not only works qualitatively, but also has the necessary equipment and supplies for it. Not just bought the cheapest ones possible, just to collect people's money without doing any work. I think some doctors have the inside information about which labs do quality work and can refer their patients. But I know people, even doctors, who like certain labs just because they downplay dangerous results on certain criteria and thus give quite reassuring results. 😅 But in many regions of the country outside the capital, including where I live, there isn't a particularly large choice among different and large numbers of laboratories, so people have to simply accept some wrong results or others. And simply trust the wrong results to move forward peacefully.
That is how we live here 🤷♀️
To downplay dangerous results is something I was expecting from my GP, it's insane to think the labs there are so careless. But then again who is to say it's not the same in others places. I think we simply don't know, and so have to put our hope that some workers are honest in their line of profession.
It so happened that this week I was also sent for annual preventive examinations by the company I work in. This has nothing to do with my condition, nor with my attempt to get my annual referrals from my GP. But it was another strange experience with doctors at the same hospital where my GP's office is located. Complete disinterest. Some company pays for some pro forma tests at a hospital through an insurance fund - just money being thrown around, nothing else, like everything else in this country. But it so happened that the lab tests were run through another lab and, what a surprise - the results are different. 😂So on the one hand I understand doctors who don't want to give referrals for labs - they know that nothing works here, in this country. But whether this is everywhere... who could really say? I actually don't believe it.