I have been here many times for pregnancy related labs, and have never had a particularly good experience (unfriendly staff, bruising from needles, etc) - but yesterday I had a notably bad experience that was honestly pretty alarming.
I came in for a one hour glucose test - which is where you drink something they give you, wait an hour, and then get your blood drawn.
When I was called back initially, the phlebotomist asked which arm I wanted to use, to which I responded, "Don't I need to drink the thing first?" And she said, looking at my paperwork, "Oh. Yeah, I'm glad you said something."
...me too! Why was reading my paperwork not the first step?
Sadly, this pattern continued. An hour later, when I came back for the blood draw, a different phlebotomist was seeing me.
She took my blood and then said, "Let me go get your paperwork so I can put your label on here."
When she returned she explained that she needed to take more blood - because my paperwork indicated that my doctor wanted other tests done.
So I got stuck twice.
Again, it was pretty irritating that checking my paperwork was not one of the initial steps taken with either person.
Like I said, I've never had a good experience here and, after yesterday, I will not be returning to this location although it is the most convenient one for me. Hopefully other locations are a little more on top of things. read more