Fragmented health records fail the women who wait longest
A friend of my mother's went in for routine surgery prep and had her blood drawn. The test showed critically low hemoglobin, and no one followed up. Three months later she saw the surgeon, had the test redrawn, and the…
A friend of my mother’s went in for routine surgery prep and had her blood drawn. The test showed critically low hemoglobin, and no one followed up. Three months later she saw the surgeon, had the test redrawn, and the result was the same. The low hemoglobin had been an early sign of colon cancer, already advanced by the time she was diagnosed. The number that might have saved her …
Fragmented health records fail the women who wait longest
