Why does it take so long to get test results from things like blood work when you go to the emergency room at a hospital
In: Biology
It doesn’t. For a life and death emergency they can do it in a couple of hours.
It takes time for everything else because the equipment is very expensive and therefore needs to be in use often enough to justify the expense. It’s more cost effective to have samples backed up than have the equipment sat idle.
Most people can wait a day or two for results.
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