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
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Depends on the test; for something super-common (and urgent) like a Complete Blood Count or Basic Metabolic Panel, the results will be ready in a few minutes, because those tests can be run on machines right there in the ER. For others, they’ll need to go to the pathology lab, and some tests just take time to run. (For a culture, that’ll take *days*.)
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