If you are a GP do you tell

[ChoccyJules]

...the patient what all blood tests are for? Or is it ok to say 'a full range' so as not to worry the patient?
I ask because at my blood test the phlebotomist mentioned oncology and it shook me a bit, having had cancer before.

Your blood test wouldn't go to oncology though. It would go to the lab. Odd for the phlebotomist to mention it.

They were reeling off which bloods went in which vials, I think to reassure me that they wouldn't be taking a whole vat of blood, then they got to one and instead of reading it out said something like 'oh it's ok I worked in oncology'....gave me the heebie jeebies.

You're reading into something that's not there

I was just asking a question about how much patients are told about their own tests is all. And saying how something made my radar go up, what with my history.

Could she have said haematology and not oncology? Would make more sense.

No, she was intimating that 'she understood' and definitely said oncology. Anyway, results tomorrow so I can stop thinking about it soon.