A couple of doctors had me down for lab work. These days, most of that is offloaded to a handful of independent laboratories with multiple locations. They're all networked and you usually don't even need an appointment; you pick one, give them your name and date of birth, and like magic, the lab order pops up, they do the blood draw (or a few other things) and the results go off to the doctor, neat as can be.
I went to the (mini) lab next to my GP's office yesterday and gave them my info, remarking there should be two different orders.
"Oh, the contract changed. At this location, we only do tests for the doctors next door now."
"But it's still the same company?"
"Yes. You could have had all the tests done at any of our full-sized locations, but here we're just doing them for the adjacent office."
I was there then, and had my sleeve rolled up. So she did the blood draw for the labs she could handle, and I stopped at another location on my way to work. This is the opposite of convenient.
Also, I have bandaids on each elbow. At least the lab tech found a good vein on my left elbow. It's usually a challenge.
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We have that sort of system among optical wares vendor sites, here. At the site within walking distance of my house, it takes an extra 3 weeks to get new glass (literally) lenses because this site doesn't have some gizmo that they could have used had I drive 15 miles to a full-service site, of whose existence I was ignorant.
Really, really convenient, I agree.
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