http://bangordailynews.com/2016/01/...rded-1-785-million-in-malpractice-trial/I send my patients to both of these hospitals. I admit to EMMC. I rarely get calls about lab results from EMMC. I have never received a call from St. Joe's. We usually get the ED report from St. Joe's with the labs included. We should always get the ED reports from EMMC as well as the lab reports, but they don't always make it here.
I will say that when a patient comes to our practice for F/U ED of either hospital, if it is somethere where having that report is beneficial we will pull it from the Internet portal or call St. Joe's to have them fax it.
A patient could go to one of the EDs and get a blood culture and, if it were negative, we wouldn't hear about it. We would probably get a call from the ED if it were positive. The ED would contact the patient as they were the ones who drew the cultures and they were the ones first notified. I suppose if a patient of mine had a positive blood culture, and I didn't know I would be upset. But, if the ED called them, they would either have them come in or they would call me.
It would also be a bit strange for a parent to bring a kid in and say they were at the ED and they did labs and they were negative.
