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How do you approach patients who are inappropriately worried/fixated on a test result that is flagged as abnormal but not clinically significant?
(i.e, isolated elevation in MCHC, RDW)
Especially when all other lab results are normal/reassuring.
Answer from: at Community Practice
This happens all the time now. I tell them that those results were flagged as outside the reference range (I don't use the term abnormal) but that they are not clinically significant.
It does not always work if there is a patient who is super anxious or hyper-focused. Typically, if they need a lot ...
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