<not a rant, but almost>
A couple of years ago I requested a provider-insuror to forward my data to a new provider-insuror and it was like the proverbial tooth-pulling and at some ridiculous cost. One desk jockey asked "All of it?" and indicated that the high cost was due to the fact that it was 50 or more pages --don't remember exactly, but it was a lot.
Kind of strange, since I'm generally pretty healthy and (knock wood, throw salt over my shoulder) rarely need doctoring.
I finally prevailed and when I got it for free, I discovered that most of it was blank pages.
I finally, using a text search, found what I wanted among the 50+pages, most of which were blank.
I hate to say this again, but too much of the medical profession is folderol and guesswork. One irksomeness is when they take your weight with clothes on, which can trigger you into a higher BMI category than when you actually are stark nekkid and with your hair dry and teeth flossed.
Good thing you have to disarm when going into a health facility, otherwise you'd show up with an extra kilo or so.
And I think I'm begining to see that they are shrinking the "normal" categories of basic health tests.... also tending to "trigger" concern about other anomolies.
Which is good for business.
</not a rant, but almost>
Terry, 230RN