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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]When they sneeze and tell me they feel like they are coming down with the flu, I ignore[/quote]

When do you not ignore?

I’ve found that doctors will be happy to send me/my partner for expensive tests ‘just in case’. To me, these aren’t things to worry about, but to my partner, it means he has the *worst possible outcome* whatever that is.

Ex, a simple planters wart. Dr removes, says they are 99% sure it’s a wart but just in case, let’s send for a biopsy. To my partner this equals ‘the doctor is concerned, they ordered a biopsy and it is probably cancer!’

Now take this example and repeat it over and over. [/quote]

Any biopsy HAS to by LAW be sent into the lab for a biopsy. Doctors don't have a choice it's a requirement. Tell her that.[/quote]

No. Tissue can be removed and not sent for path. If there’s no clinical suspicion for neoplastic change we dump it. If you’re billing it as potentially pre-cancerous or needs to check margins then yes it’s sent.

This is based on institutional policy and CMS billing practices, not “law”.

Plantar warts are unlikely to need eval under a microscope. So I wouldn’t send it. Then again, we have a for-profit healthcare system where both patients and docs lose, also patients expect 100% right answers and routinely threaten to sue if they don’t get them.

So yeah. We try to be right because we’re crucified when we’re wrong. Also despite the doctor hate out there, we don’t want to hurt people or miss something. [/quote]

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