Lab Results Policy: Fill & Download for Free

My husband came to me one evening, and told me “God came to me and told me I will be coming to him soon.” “Baby, I’m not going to live past 40.” Our (4) children and I mildly joked about it, but he planned for his death, stressing to my children to get a good education, work for yourself. He took out an additional life insurance policy, bought a new car for us both, with protective life insurance on them, approximately a month before his death . He was 40. My son planned to announce the pending birth of our first grandchild the next day, my son’s birthday.Sundays were big dinner and healing discussion days, and one evening, while laying in my bed, talking about their father, my bathroom faucet started shooting out water, strong enough to wet the floor in a matter of seconds. Everyone got up and left the room (running!)and the water stopped. My grandson, then around 4 years old, told my daughter her dad was ok, don’t be sad. My husband died before any grandchildren existed. There had been many more of these incidents through the years.He’s still around, I think, though it’s been a while…

Your doctor does not have the right to withhold lab results until your appointment.In the U.S., many doctors’ offices have secure patient portals where their patients can look up lab results and other medical records. Some offices will mail your results to you, though they may ask for specific permission to do so because of HIPAA.If a result is grossly abnormal and your appointment is coming up very soon, your doctor might wish to hold off on posting or mailing it until he/she can discuss it with you. It might be that the results are inaccurate due to a hemolyzed specimen that needs to be redrawn, or that the result needs to be verified by another test.I suspect from your question that this isn't the case, but wanted to be fair to both sides.If your doctor's office has a policy of not mailing them due to expense or HIPAA, ask if you can stop by and pick up a copy.If they still refuse to release your results, ask to speak to the practice manager about your concerns.Best of luck to you!

Liberal democracies can learn these lessons from China:Only permit people with IQs above 140 to run your country. Governing is the most difficult job in the world and only smart people can do it well.Only allow professionals to run your country. Since governing is harder than rocket science, only allow lifelong, dedicated professionals to do it.Only promote honest officials. The higher they climb the more honest they must be and the more transparent their lives. At China’s highest levels, no-one is permitted to hold one-on-one meetings: every meeting must be monitored, for example.Only allow experts to speak publicly about policies. Amateur criticisms are no more useful in policy making than in brain surgery.Set ambitious goals. In 500 BC Confucius imagined a xiaokang society free of poverty and then a datong, radically sharing community. Mao set them as goals for the nation in 1949, Deng set 2021 as the deadline for xiaokang and after that, China will go for datong. So the whole society is on the same page and moving in the same direction.Ask, ask, ask! says as author Jeff J. Brown, “My Beijing neighborhood committee and town hall are constantly putting up announcements, inviting groups of people–renters, homeowners, over seventies, women under forty, those with or without medical insurance, retirees–to answer surveys. The CPC is the world’s biggest pollster for a reason: China’s democratic ‘dictatorship of the people’ is highly engaged at the day-to-day, citizen-on-the-street level. I know, because I live in a middle class Chinese community and I question them all the time. I find their government much more responsive and democratic than the dog-and-pony shows back home, and I mean that seriously.”After free and open debate, once a policy has been voted on, stop discussion and unite to implement it. This is called ‘democratic centralism,’ and it’s one reason for China’s success.Test, test, test! As Robin Daverman says, “China is a giant trial portfolio with millions of trials going on everywhere. Innovations in everything from healthcare to poverty reduction, education, energy, trade and transportation are being trialled in different communities. Every one of China’s six-hundred sixty-two cities is experimenting: Shanghai is experimenting with free trade zones; Guizhou with poverty reduction; twenty-three cities with education reforms; Northeastern provinces with SOE reform: pilot schools, pilot cities, pilot hospitals, pilot markets, pilot everything. Mayors and governors, the Primary Investigators, share their ‘lab results’ at the Central Party School and publish them in ‘scientific journals,’ the State-owned newspapers. Major policies undergo ‘clinical trials,’ beginning in small towns that generate and analyze test data. If the stats look good, they’ll add test sites and do long-term follow-ups. They test and tweak for 10-30 years then ask the 3,000-member People’s Congress to review the data and authorize national trials in three major provinces. If a national trial is successful the State Council polishes the plan and takes it back to the 3,000 Congresspeople for a final vote. It’s very transparent and, if you have good data and I don’t, your bill gets passed and mine doesn’t. People’s Congress votes are nearly unanimous because the legislation is backed by reams of data. This allows China to accomplish a great deal in a short time: your winning solution will be quickly propagated throughout the country, you’ll be a front page hero and you’ll be invited to high-level meetings in Beijing and promoted. As you can imagine, the competition to solve the country’s problems is intense.If Western liberal democracies follow these simple steps they will become as peaceful and prosperous as China.