Category: LOL Moments

It was a typical day in the lab until we received an order from the ER. It was a STAT… Continue reading The Clay Howard Test

I work in a small town hospital with team members taking turns doing overnight calls. It was my turn to… Continue reading He’s Just Tired

At the hospital where I used to work, patients wait for us at the waiting area to have their blood… Continue reading She’s Got Enough

All is well in the laboratory until I realized a patient needed to collect a urine sample and it was… Continue reading Telemarketer Troubles

One day, I went to the ER to collect a flu swab on a patient. When I got there, the… Continue reading Coughing Accident

You know that saying “Don’t judge the book by its cover”? Well, as lab techs, we also have our own… Continue reading At Times It’s QNS

Nurse: I want to check the results on a urine culture. Me: That specimen was submitted earlier today so there… Continue reading Urine Culture STAT

I had a nurse call for the results of a blood culture 2 hours after it was collected! I told… Continue reading Miracle Grow Fix

A specimen arrived in the clinical laboratory in a urine cup that looked like it had survived a natural disaster.… Continue reading A Load of Trouble

Long time ago when I was a phlebotomist, I went into a room and asked the patient what his name… Continue reading Watt’s Your Name?