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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My DD22 was in and out of ER and urgent cares with gastrointestinal and menstrual issues over the course of two years. She got a pregnancy test run every time.

(Ended up with endometriosis diagnosis)[/quote]

Please read what I wrote - The pregnancy test itself is not the issue, it is the lack of it being done without her knowledge. She should at least have the right to consent or decline.  She would have consented of course, but should she not be allowed to have that right to decline? And she only found out about the test being run when she got her bill.  It is an issue of rights, consent and principle. [/quote]

I read basically every other page, so maybe this was already addressed, but:
1.  The procedure was the urine collection.  She clearly consented to that.
[b]2.  She asked what tests were being run.  They told her routine.  She said fine.  So she DID consent to whatever tests were deemed to be routine by the physician.  If she had followed up and asked more specifically, then she would have known.[/b]

She's young and was in pain - it makes perfect sense that she didn't ask for lots of details.  But to now pretend that they were trying to do something sneaky or had misled her somehow is super disingenuous. 
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This is the important part where OP's argument falls apart. She did not ask. By the comments, everyone clearly knows routine for a woman includes pregnancy test.

I can also bet that OP would be the first to file a malpractice suit if they didn't do the pregnancy test and there was a treatment given that could have harmed a fetus. The medical/health insurance industry sucks for many, many reasons, but patients like OP are exactly why many doctors hate their work.[/quote]

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