Tripler's interpretation of this requirement involves a bureaucrat with a stopwatch, not a sympathetic attitude. I'm not going to smear the hard-earned reputation of command sergeants major by invoking that stereotype, but you get the point.All Surgery or Endoscopy centers have these rules . I even had Nuns do Pregnancy tests . We actually had one woman ( not a nun ) fail the test . Surprise !
I'm just sayin', a little internal motivation goes a long way. Admonishments that the onerous requirements are for our benefits... well... that's far too common, especially in the military.
I also can't be the first guy to show up on the table who did everything right (perhaps too right) only to achieve the wrong results. I was pretty groggy coming out of there, but someone could've tucked a copy of a "Sorry about the bad prep" form letter into my pocket for later reflection.
But Tripler called today to make sure that I've completely recovered from yesterday morning, and they'll send a postcard about the biopsy. Perhaps that'll be when we start talking about "bad prep" issues.