The Right To Not Piss In a Cup For You
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“Would you say that again?” I ask incredulously. Surely I misheard.
“We need a urine sample to check for illicit drugs. And we need to make sure you are taking the drugs you have been prescribed,” she repeats back to me, tonelessly.
I’ll be damned. I didn’t mishear. I am having labs drawn, one day pre-op.
I take a deep breath, something mastered over the years when faced with a situation that raises my ire.
“Really?” I ask. I look at the sterile urine catch cup in her hand.
“I don’t have a history of addiction or anything like that. This makes no sense to me,” I add in a mild tone. “Don’t I have to sign a bunch of stuff?” I raise my eyebrows.
She sighs. “No, you signed consent when you signed at the desk. Just go in there,” she gestures to a door adjacent to the lab and thrusts the cup at me, “and bring me back a clean catch sample. There are instructions on the wall.”
She turns to her laptop on the counter, dismissing me.
