So, having seen a mixed bag of responses to this question, I figured, why not ask Reddit?!?!
I had a surgical biopsy performed this past Monday morning. I was told that I could expect the pathology results by Wednesday or Thursday, which mirrored my own experiences in the field (admittedly in the distant past). Not seeing any results in MyChart by Thursday, and anxious to know the outcome, I called my physician’s office (not my PCP, but the specialist who did the biopsy) and was told to contact his surgical nurse. I called and left voicemail.
I called again Friday morning and again no answer, but felt it rude to leave a second message. Taking a shot before the weekend hit, I called again Friday afternoon, and successfully reached the nurse. She explained that the results were in, but they had not yet been reviewed by the doctor, and she could not release them to me over the phone (which I expected and understood) but that they could not be released to me through MyChart either because they had not been reviewed. She then added that the doctor was not in that day and would not be able to review until at least Tuesday.
I can fully understand people that do not wish to review medical test results on their own, and the desire for a doctor to avoid situations where people get negative results and freak out, or even just receive results which they do not understand (and likely will be assumed to be the worst, and cue the freak out). At the same time, while I’m happy to go over my results with my doctor at some point, I have enough of a medical background that I can review test results and discern good vs. bad vs. ambiguous to at least a B+ level, and can either relax or prepare for next steps and be in a better position to ask questions when the resulting conversation does (eventually) happen.
In reading on my own, I’ve seen varied interpretations of the 21st Century Cures Act and suggestions that results MUST (their words) be released as soon as available, regardless of if they’ve been reviewed by the referring physician or PCP. Can anyone shed some definitive light on this before I contact my physician’s office?
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