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Can my regular doctor do the thyroid blood tests in his clinic?

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Dr. Quang Nguyen answered

Specializes in Endocrinology

No: Thyroid tests are blood draw. It takes time to come back. Your primary care doc might have a person drawing blood in the office but the blood have to be sent to a lab to get the result. There are some docs with their own labs but that's not the norm.

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Answered 2/29/2016

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