Question about physicals......

[UDT89]

So i have my physical saturday morning at 9am.

I work friday nights at a bar and to stop drinking/eating after midnight, while not hard, is just a little annoying. B/c i dont leave work till 5am.

So i asked her what the latest appointment is and she said 3pm. So i said if i take the 3pm appointment does that mean i can eat/drink till 3-4am. She said no, you still stop at midnight.

I just dont get the logic. If my appointment is 9am, how can the time i stop eating/drinking be the same as a 3pm appointment?

 

[Descartes]

It's just to make it less complicated. If you had to have every office administrator calculate the time you should stop eating/drinking you'd have a whole world of problems, imo. Saying midnight makes it clear, easy, and consistent for everyone.

[edit]I should note that I don't know for sure; the above is just my opinion.[/edit]

 

[UDT89]

Originally posted by: Descartes
It's just to make it less complicated. If you had to have every office administrator calculate the time you should stop eating/drinking you'd have a whole world of problems, imo. Saying midnight makes it clear, easy, and consistent for everyone.

[edit]I should note that I don't know for sure; the above is just my opinion.[/edit]

i agree with simplicity. but is there a standard amount of time before your appointment ur supposed to stop?

 

[ATLien247]

Long enough for your body to have metabolized everything, so that the blood and urine tests aren't thrown off... however long that is. And make sure that you're hydrated.

 

[FoBoT]

doctors just do things one way
they don't use logic, they just do stuff a certain way to keep it simple

 

[theknight571]

Originally posted by: ATLien247
Long enough for your body to have metabolized everything, so that the blood and urine tests aren't thrown off... however long that is. And make sure that you're hydrated.

I agree with being hydrated... makes it alot easier for the lab technician to draw blood.

Or so I've been told by the techs in the lab I've been to.

 

[UDT89]

im just really dreading having to stay awake friday night.

working 830-6 then 11-5ish is gonna be hell after midnight just on water....