If you take a specimen/sample of something to a doctor's office, specifically a dermatologist, and to your

knowledge it was never cultured or had lab work done on it, what does the doctor's office do with the specimen/sample? Are physicians required to dispose of specimens, no matter of what, in a specific way or do they send it to a state lab? Thanks. NancyIf you take a specimen/sample of something to a doctor's office, specifically a dermatologist, and to your
It depends on what type of specimen it is and what its intended use was. Your question is too vague to give a specific answer.





I'm trying to figure out what ';specimen'; you would bring into a dermatologist's office on your own. It's one thing to have a ';specimen'; collected by a dermatologist, but collecting it yourself is probably not medically valid. Plus, if you collected it yourself, it's not sterile, so culturing it would just grow out normal flora of the skin and whatever other surfaces it touched.





';Lab work'; is a nebulous term that is used to define a HUGE number of different tests.





Can you be more specific?If you take a specimen/sample of something to a doctor's office, specifically a dermatologist, and to your
good question