To clarify:
Are you asking this because you live in a place where medical care is
not available? Because 30% of Canada's population lives in rural,
remote or Northern areas, Canada's health care system has a number of
ways to get medical help and information to those areas, much
available on the Web.
Or is it that you simply prefer to "do-it-yourself"? In that case,
you'd be better off NOT trying to order, pay for, or interpret your
own medical lab tests. First of all, taking and preparing samples is
not simply a matter of putting blood in a bottle and dropping it in
the mail--you need sterile equipment, preservatives, sometimes
anti-coagulants. Then there would be the question of which test to
order--there are thousands of different tests that can be done--doing
them all would be prohibitively expensive. And then, when you get
results, how will you know what they mean?
If you are merely curious, by all means send away for lab tests. But
if you have serious concerns about your health, see a doctor. |