Fasting blood work?

I'm sure everyone has had to go to a lab such as Gamma-Dynacare to have fasting blood work done as part of your annual physical.

I'm sure you've all had to wait in a long lineup too at 7:30 in the morning before going to work without breakfast.

What bugs me, and I don't even have to go to work, is that the lab has only one person at the computer and two drawing blood when there are 45 people waiting for morning (fasting) blood work. Then when the, and I quote, "worst part of the day" is over 3 more staff come in to work.

Why do they not have a full staff on to do the bulk of the days work? People are having to stand and wait in the hallway outside since there are only 35 chairs, and some of course may eventually pass out after standing over 30-45 minutes waiting their turn with no food in their stomaches.

I don't know about you, but I'm not waiting 45 minutes to an hour for blood work to be done when I haven't even had a coffee yet. My family doctor will just have to open up earlier in the morning and draw the blood himself if this isn't going to change.

Why should I bother since I'm not going to take that statin drug he's going to offer me anyway...

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