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May 13, 2008, 05:47:27 PM »
The clinic where I go to are requiring everyone to have a TB tst.
Is your clinic requiring this? Just wondering.
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The transplant center required one. Well, one required it and the other didn't. Guess it all depends on who is in charge.
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I have to have one every year, plus one within three months if I travel anywhere. I have been ex-rayed so much I should glow in the dark by now!
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OB, me again! I have to have chest xrays every year, but the center also required the bloodTB test this year. Is that what you are referring to? My dad had TB when I was a child and spent a year in a TB saniitarium. The whole family had chest xrays monthly. It was a sad time. We were only allowed to "see" him through a window during that year.
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my center gave them late last year of the first part of this year (don't ask when my mind is full of steel wool and cotton candy. the steel wool is rusted and the cotton candy melted) anyway i had one because i think it's a good idea. they didn't specifically say it was required and i don't know what would have happened if i refused it. if you don't want one i really don't think they can require it.
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No, I don't mind getting one. I just was wondering if it
was normal procedure or if a patient there had tb and they were checking
everyone for it.
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OB, from what I understand it is now required practice that we get the tb shots AS well as the flu shots and the pneumonia shots. AND the hepatitis B shots as well. I've done the first 2 shots of the hepatitis, no biggie, there!
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Our only required test is HIV.
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May 14, 2008, 10:31:19 AM »
At our clinic all patients and all staff are required to have the TB test.
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It is required in my clinic. I have been treated for TB a few years ago in pretransplant work up. I had a TB test go positive in the ER. Lucky me.
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Our unit makes us take the skin test (where they inject a bit of dead tb cells right under the skin) once a year. Every January, I think it is.
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