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Hey EVO fam, it came to my attention today that our members in Eastern Canada have it really bad when it comes to getting bloodwork.
Thankfully @teddy_vio stepped up and shared his secrets for working the system out there to get the care you need.
Below is his step by step guide to access bloodwork yourself
1) Register for Maple care. If they ask if you have a primary doctor just say you don't.
2) When booking your appointment on Maple, choose the 'lower' care option, as opposed to the full care option. With the lower option, you will often be paired with an NP and wait is usually an hour or less.
3) Tell them you don't have a family doc, but you've been followed over the years with regular PSA testing due to family history of prostate cancer ir make something else like that up. You need to give them any reason to issue you a bloodwork form.
4) When you get the requisition form to print off at home and take to your lab, just check off any extra boxes you want tested. The items not on the boxes are added in the notes section. Feel free to reach out to me and I can let you know what acronyms the doctors add in this section for certain tests.
5) Assuming you've created your account on the MyHealthNB app, your blood work will be posted there for you after about a week.
Hopefully this helps people in Eastern Canada. If there's anything missing or extra help tips you can offer up please post it here for everyone. Also please share your experiences to help the other members in Eastern Canada get better access to bloodwork testing.
Thankfully @teddy_vio stepped up and shared his secrets for working the system out there to get the care you need.
Below is his step by step guide to access bloodwork yourself
1) Register for Maple care. If they ask if you have a primary doctor just say you don't.
2) When booking your appointment on Maple, choose the 'lower' care option, as opposed to the full care option. With the lower option, you will often be paired with an NP and wait is usually an hour or less.
3) Tell them you don't have a family doc, but you've been followed over the years with regular PSA testing due to family history of prostate cancer ir make something else like that up. You need to give them any reason to issue you a bloodwork form.
4) When you get the requisition form to print off at home and take to your lab, just check off any extra boxes you want tested. The items not on the boxes are added in the notes section. Feel free to reach out to me and I can let you know what acronyms the doctors add in this section for certain tests.
5) Assuming you've created your account on the MyHealthNB app, your blood work will be posted there for you after about a week.
Hopefully this helps people in Eastern Canada. If there's anything missing or extra help tips you can offer up please post it here for everyone. Also please share your experiences to help the other members in Eastern Canada get better access to bloodwork testing.
I hope this helps EVO brothers in Eastern Canada. 
