Question

A patient comes to an outpatient laboratory for a physician-ordered fasting test. The patient indicates that he forgot that the test was to be fasting and ate a candy bar 2 hours ago. The patient insists that you should draw the test because he cannot come back at another time. What should you do?

Answer 1

The patient eating a candy bar instead of fasting for the test should be told

that the test results will be wrong and he may receive a wrong diagnosis.

The medical practitioners told him to fast when coming for a reason and he

forgetting and eating something means the objective for the test may have

been defeated.

This is why it's best to explain to him about the consequences of his actions

which is likely getting a wrong result and diagnosis.

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