*PLEASE READ THIS REVIEW BEFORE VISTING THIS LOCATION: it's convenient, but it's not worth it unless you want someone to shove shit in your face and give you an attitude*
Today I had an appointment to turn in a specimen. This was my second time trying to get the specimen turned in- the first time I was told I needed to do it again because it was supposed to be frozen not refrigerated. On the specimen bottle itself and on the bag was written: "REFRIDGERATE" IN SHARPIE
I should have expected the appointment to not go well the moment I heard her mispronounce my name twice, and again despite me correcting her. Mind you, she was in fact very fluent in English and the name is a basic English word. From one Hispanic person to another, there was absolutely no excuse- she just didn't care considering she looked extremely annoyed and bothered by anyone and everything.
The people helping me in my appointments to that point were kind and respectful, but I have never been disrespected as badly as I was today by anyone in my life, and I mean that by no exaggeration. I was treated like I was an idiot for bringing in a specimen that was slightly over the red line. Mind you there is absolutely no warning on the bottle, it's packaging, or its information pamphlets not to exceed that line, just to add specimen TO that line. I have had specimens refused elsewhere in the past for insufficient quantity, so I filled to the line but it went slightly over by no more than a centimeter. This wasn't my intention but it was the second time i've tried to do this sample already for issues outside of my control.
The girl who took my sample handled it like it was disgusting, which made me feel embarrassed, and she goes to show it to a coworker who says "Where's the liquid?" There was never any liquid in the bottle to begin with. Then she asks me as well and I tell her "there was no liquid." She leaves and then comes back with a new specimen container and starts basically scolding me for the sample being over the line. I have had such a hard time trying to get this sample turned in because of health restrictions making it difficult for me to make the specimen. She holds my specimen in front of me, which at this point I should let you know is stool, and I mean she quite literally shoved it in my face and treated me like an idiot by saying "See, it is clearly over the line. Either you fix this or you do it again it's up to you." She was still handling it like it was disgusting and even making disgusted facial expressions at me.
Nowhere on the container does it say not to fill past that line, and It was only one centimeter over. All that aside, I would have been okay with being told this if I was treated like a basic human being and not like an idiotic nuisance. But to literally shove shit in my face and act that way with me for a specimen I urgently need processed for my health issues and then treat me that was beyond belief. I would usually express my displeasure with being treated this way on the spot, but I was legitimately baffled by the audacity and disrespect of someone who is supposedly a health care professional. I have never seen anyone be treated this way in any health care institution.
Unfortunately for her, I am not an idiot, and I am very well acquainted with how health care professionals do act through my own work. This location might be convenient, but it's not worth it unless you want someone to shove shit in your face and give you an attitude. read more
