US News -- My gynecologist’s office never calls to tell me my annual Pap smear is fine. And I’ve been guessing the strep test my 9-year-old son had 10 days ago was normal, since my pediatrician didn’t contact me. But I’m mistaken in my assumptions and shouldn’t rest easy. That’s according to a new study published in yesterday’s Archives of Internal Medicine , which finds that 7 percent of abnormal results aren’t reported to patients. “You can’t assume that no news is good news,” stresses study author Lawrence Casalino, an associate professor of public health at Weill Cornell Medical College in New York City.
