Surprised ? that when entering the door, over half full on chairs of waiting visitors in two sides, but a deadly quiet scene. The 3-4 ladies of color dark sit behind the curved clerk desk, in gentle and low voice, a bit remotely in distance said hallo to me: "R u ..." ? I hesitated, since this was my first time, almost in life: "I come ✋ u my speci...", not sure how to finish the last part of the word. Just faintly remembered the first part of that medical term. "Specimen"? The lady in slim face behind computer asked. I relieved, "Yes! " seemed she's a woman savior. "You still need to register in Kiosk". Done, I quietly sit in back chair of the room, waiting.
On waiting chairs most were color of fair, some brownish, only one yellow. Nurses, clerks & phlebotomists r all color of dark. Seemed we all, from a colorful world, came to an African country's clinic. But seemed so organized, polite, in gentle and low voice with a respect and kindness, toward its clients of everyone -- an equal little society!
I occasionally turned my head toward my right, in front of curved desk when dealing with the nurse, discovered a fair skinned over-middle aged man, seemed looking at me in a shine spark in his eyes. Wonder, in my ❤️, ❓ Aged in us enough, no refine, no polish, no made-up, no nothing!?
Still sit & patiently waited. Then the door left to me suddenly strugglingly sounded, a super slim & tall & fair skinned yet senior lady of yellow color tried very hard to open the door herself by bending her body almost in half! I immediately stood up trying to help her, she waived one hand refusing, another hand still held the tight door handle: no, I can do it! When she still on her way in with a °75% body bending, suddenly excited: R u C.? Yes, I answered. She again, exclaimed: me too. I'm from Tw, how about u? "I'm from mainland C.". "Oh, how nice it's" ! She's very much in a joy.
Unexpectedly, another seemed familiar hometown tone sounded, from that fair skinned man a bit far away: "U speak M.? I can speak a bit". "Oh, my God, here another C., We r all C. together here...!" How wonderful it's, she obviously to imply. Her slim & clear voice in our hometown penetrated the whole little waiting room. Believe other visitors overheard of us, though they might not fully understand, since she sometimes in English sometimes in C. hometown language. She asked that man: U? "My wife is C., her grandparents r from Tw..." So this fair skinned man joined our yellow team, though we two r fairly fair skin in our yellow team. Now I understood why that fair skinned man looked at me earlier - bc I's one of his half hometown's folks.
"I am 87 yrs old, born in 1937" ! She exclaimed. I couldn't believe it! She's super slim & tall, super fit, super highly alert, super fast in mind & in reaction & in action! She looked like in lower 70s.
She again: "Doctor gave the wrong medicines to my husband which caused his death. The doctor begged me not to sue him..." . She continued: "Our hometown's medicines and doctors r better .., , our C. people r nicer, over there hometown is nicer..., but I don't like the Cxx, too controlling...".
Her back toward the door ready to leave, she proudly announced: my hometown is in Changsha, Hunan (province)". The fair skinned man replied, "My wife's hometown is from
Nanjing (of Jiangsu)". Seemed, I faintly recall.
A history of escaping. Man made fear, of everything. Since time passed by, but still couldn't forget the hometown of mine. Lin, Haiyin, a Beijing-Taiwanese woman author deeply and sentimentally wrote her story:《the Old Story of the South Town》, recalled her adolescent in old Beiping (Beijing), in an invisible tear.
July 2024 by Sriraj S
Checkin, get verified, get your work done. as simple as that.
The attendants are very helpful and attentive.
June 2024 by Ben Kass
I didn’t have to wait that long even as a walk-in, only about 20 minutes, but I got here right at 7 am and it did fill up fast. The lady who drew my blood was really nice too!
May 2024 by kathleen rickard
Had an appointment and still waited over 30 minutes to be seen. They also allowed someone with an appointment later than my own to go before me as well as walkins who showed up at the same time. A waste of time and highly encourage you to go somewhere else.
April 2024 by Helen Mandehzadeh
In 2000 i Moved to Vienna, and this is the lab that i been coming ever since. The staff are very nice and professional, office is neat and clean. although this office is quite a distance from my home.
I tried one in Vienna and in Merrifield but NO.
February 2024 by Al Aportela
Wow! Waiting 3+ hours to get lab work. Management needs to hire more phlebotomists for this location or open the nearby office on Saturday. Once again, greed prevails over healthcare.
February 2024 by Mohit Saran
I have been to this facility for 5+ years for my annual blood tests and the whole experience - ease of booking online appointments, quality of reminders, on site experience to getting results back has always been very quick and easy.
February 2024 by Lijun Guo
I have had a quite pleasant experience this morning doing a walk in around 9am. The waiting room is packed with abou 8 ppl ahead of me. It is a smallish office tucked on the 3 rd floor of an office building, and as a first timer I had to spent some time locating the right entrance which is garage facing not street facing.I checked in with the Kiosk and waited about 25mins to get to me. The lab technician Miss Tinsae was super nice and kind with excellent skills of handling needles, which brightened my day. They are not able to provide you wait time of walk ins but all in all it has been a pleasant experience so far, I am just hoping I can get my STAT report as soon as possible, which will make the whole experience perfect.
February 2024 by Jacob
The front desk (1/26/2024 morning) acted as disrespectful and discrimination.
February 2024 by Vivian Kline
I almost *NEVER* leave reviews for anything, but I feel like I have to for this Labcorp location. Service was super speedy and professional. More importantly though, my veins are always incredibly uncooperative, and my phlebotomist (don't remember her name, wish I had asked!) made it look easy. It's almost always a pain for me to get blood drawn since I have to get pricked multiple times, but this was a painless one-and-done. Will definitely come back to this Labcorp location whenever I need bloodwork done again.
February 2024 by Douglas Harden
Deja is the best! My daughter is five and she has a blood draw every quarter. She's scared and timid each time. Today, Deja did a great job helping her be calm and relaxed. Deja reassured her everything was fine and that was doing great. Deja was so nice and sweet to her. He calm, reassuring demeanor really put my daughter at ease. Deja did a great job. I hope Labcorp will promote her and give her a raise - she is the best!!! Thank you, Deja!!!
February 2024 by Sophie S.
My experiences have always been brief and efficient here. Professional staff. Understanding of concerns of faintness after the blood test.
February 2024 by Isabelle Muller
Very efficient and pleasant staff.
