If you would like providers to run an additional test, say so. If they don’t want to, request they put in your chart that you requested this and were declined. What this does is show providers you are serious, may need additional explanation about the test or why it isn’t recommended, it makes a paper trail, and puts heat on the docs if it turns out they really should have run the test. Sometimes it’s just done to save you money if there’s no point and insurance won’t cover it

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I want to ask my pcp to just run one more test. But I’m worried that they will just say “follow up with GI” like they have been. But there is one part of my GI system that hasn’t been checked and idk if I can keep going for a year without getting malnourished again.

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