At 4 pm, a physician requests that you add a culture for Clostridium difficile to a routine stool culture he wrote orders for at 9 am. You will
A) offer to perform toxin detection instead.
B) comply with his request.
C) request a new specimen due to the delay.
D) offer to send the stool to the state public health laboratory.
A
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Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)
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