Labtests = evil

[Grasshopperus]

Well there's been plenty of controversy about labtests recently; incompetence, slow service, backhanders etc.
I thought I'd share my shocking experience this morning.

So I turn up at the Auckland Queen St outpost of Labtests for some major surgery (a blood test) and wait patiently for about 10 minutes.

Problem#1 - no good mags. They were all 'new idea' and 'womens day'. Shit.

Get called to get blood test done

Problem#2 - was denied general anaesthetic. Are we a 3rd world country or something wtf.

Come out of pain-induced coma after test is done

Problem#3 - they didn't have any lollipops!!! I had to make do with a stamp on my hand.


So who else has had an awful run-in with these rogues?

[Flatcap]

Wait until you have to shit in a petrie dish - then you will have something to complain about

[slofox]

Problem#3 - they didn't have any lollipops!!! I had to make do with a stamp on my hand.

NO LOLLIPOPS!?!?!! Bastards!

[Forest]

... and wait patiently for about 10 minutes.

10 minutes?

YOU COULD HAVE DIED!!!! SOMEBODY ALERT THE MEDIA!!!!!!

[NC]

Life can be tough sometimes

[ynot slow]

Yep but wait till the results come back,yes sir you're 2 months pregnant.

[Big Dan]

Well i've had my virgin experience with Labtest

Well i went to my usual Medlab(Avondale) place where they advised me to go to labtest. So i had to walk thru one business to get to labtests where i was asked 4 times by 2 different people and sat in the vampire chair and waited for 5 minutes while once again get asked to confirm my details twice (while i was just thinking "just suck my blood already" ) well after 15minutes i was all done and thinking "whats wrong with medlab that the gubbermint did this"

I made a point to go to the medlab staff to let them know that they are much better

[R6_kid:Me]

Is it normal to get anaesthetic when getting a blood test?

You sound like a bit of a pussy.

[mynameis]

Well there's been plenty of controversy about labtests recently; incompetence, slow service, backhanders etc.
I thought I'd share my shocking experience this morning.

So I turn up at the Auckland Queen St outpost of Labtests for some major surgery (a blood test) and wait patiently for about 10 minutes.

Problem#1 - no good mags. They were all 'new idea' and 'womens day'. Shit.

Get called to get blood test done

Problem#2 - was denied general anaesthetic. Are we a 3rd world country or something wtf.

Come out of pain-induced coma after test is done

Problem#3 - they didn't have any lollipops!!! I had to make do with a stamp on my hand.


So who else has had an awful run-in with these rogues?

Problem#1 - no good mags. They were all 'new idea' and 'womens day'. Shit.

Get called to get blood test done

Your personal entertainment is your own problem not anyone elses, take your own mags music ect...

Problem#2 - was denied general anaesthetic. Are we a 3rd world country or something wtf.

Come out of pain-induced coma after test is done

Hahaha what kind of test were you doing that you required a GA and came out of "pain-induced coma" ? Who would have administered that and do you know how much it costs?

Problem#3 - they didn't have any lollipops!!! I had to make do with a stamp on my hand.

So who else has had an awful run-in with these rogues?

School holidays are you 12?

[Latte]

My only experience with labtest so far has been bad. The technician/nurse used up 5 needles doing a skin test on my daughter (2 1/2 years old), the 1st 2 dropped were dropped on the ground. The next 2 found their mark, but went in too deep (our daughters fault for flinching so the nurse said). The last one she was held down by my wife and another nurse, and still it went in too deep (and it was my daughters fault for flinching again of course). At this point the nurse called the clinic where our daughter was getting TB shots (reason for the skin tests) and they decided it would be ok to use the test.

We then went to the clinic a few days later , only to find there's no record of the test in the paperwork from labtest. So the clinic calls labtests, with all the details (name, dob, labtest client id, appointment date and time etc) , and there's no record of the skin test being done - or even of an appointment at all.

The clinic even went to the length of calling the specific branch of labtest to find out if they had info there, and there was none. It was only a small piece of luck (the lady doing the TB shot happened to be the person speaking to the nurse at labtest about the needles going in too deep) that they let us do the TB Shots - we needed them as we are going overseas and the kids need to be vaccinated.

The worst part of all this was that our daughter screamed as soon as she saw the needle at the clinic, expecting to go through the same ordeal as a few days earlier. I had to cuddle her, while my wife held her arm for the needle to get anywhere near her. It was over in seconds, and once we explained it was all finished she stopped crying pretty quickly. if only the 1st experience had gone as well.

/rant

[Pixie]

Well i've had my virgin experience with Labtest

Well i went to my usual Medlab(Avondale) place where they advised me to go to labtest. So i had to walk thru one business to get to labtests where i was asked 4 times by 2 different people and sat in the vampire chair and waited for 5 minutes while once again get asked to confirm my details twice (while i was just thinking "just suck my blood already" ) well after 15minutes i was all done and thinking "whats wrong with medlab that the gubbermint did this"

I made a point to go to the medlab staff to let them know that they are much better

The gubbermint did not do it.(not even the last one)

Some dodgy faceless bureaucrats at the DHB decided to give their mates the contract probably for certain unknown kickbacks

[mynameis]

The gubbermint did not do it.(not even the last one)

Some dodgy faceless bureaucrats at the DHB decided to give their mates the contract probably for certain unknown kickbacks

Bollocks, where do you get that from ? Thin air

It was $15 mil cheaper for the same services because they would run far less labs and place their centres "strategically"