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Back when I worked in the lab, my sister kept having a bad sore throat and the clinic did the strep test, which was negative each time. Well protocol at the clinic as well as our lab is that all negatives should be sent to LabCorp for a strep culture to see if a patient is positive for any of the other strains of strep that are not picked up by the test kit. Well I found out that those idiots hadn't sent any of the specimens out and so my supervisor went to the clinic to explain protocol. They had my sister come back to retest and it was neg, then they sent it out and big surprise, it came back with a different strain of strep. Had to get her tonsils removed because of the constant strep.
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