On 05/05/2016 20:48, Steve Walker wrote:
That means being there by 06:30 if I don't want a 2 hour or longer wait.

It isn't the wait that is the problem for me. (It would just be a boring
inconvenience.) For quite a number of blood tests, time matters.

Our local hospital phlebotomy opens at 08:00 which, with luck, means a
draw just early enough. The GP appointments don't even start before 09:00.

Time wouldn't be quite such an issue if the medics even realised the
importance of time of draw. They don't. So they don't, actually can't,
make any allowance. Diagnosis, adjustments to medication, etc., can all
be affected because of this desperate ignorance. (Yes - there is
recognition of time for some tests.) Nor do they recognise that far more
tests are affected by fasting/not fasting than is ever acknowledged.

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Rod