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"Embarrassing"

About: Acre Surgery

I booked the appointment okay, but when I attended, I was made to take a pregnancy test, which is ok. I was sent to the toilet, I asked the doctor where the toilet was, she said I had to ask the receptionist. The receptionist ignored me for about 3 minutes. I was not given a container to pee into so had to improvise, first awkward part. Then when I went back the doctor was seeing another patient and told me to sit in the waiting area... Holding a pregnancy test which I had used, which is awkward and kind of gross.

Then when I was called again to go in she looked and said oh it is negative.... Then gave me two stool samples and some other test and said to bring the stool samples back to the surgery to hand in. I did the stool samples the next day and brought them in.

I was told by the receptionist that they don't take stool samples, so I asked where I need to take them, she said I don't know... A pharmacy, I said which one, she said any pharmacy maybe boot's. I'm sorry but I cannot bring myself to aimlessly wander around different pharmacy's to see if they will accept my stool samples. My samples are too old now so I would need new containers but I feel so awkward, and still don't know where to hand the samples in if I do a new one.

Where do I hand in a stool sample for acre surgery???

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