If anything, I expected the results of the DNA test but the GI specialist didn't even seem aware the test had been ordered by her colleague in hemotology.

I requested a script for a sweat test. May as well get this thing settled. She almost seemed relieved that I brought it up and readily wrote it out. She suggested I take it at Monmouth Medical Center because it's closer.

Sure, it's a bit closer.

The generally well-spoken woman stumbled uncharacteristically over her own words, "They do a better job with this sort of thing over there ... because ... they see more of it. They see it more often." Only time will tell what she meant by that, if anything.