Category: LOL Moments

An afternoon in the ER and my coworker and I decided to tag team drawing cultures on a elderly male… Continue reading Tag Teaming Went Wrong

As most labs do, we celebrated lab week with a lunch and cake celebration. I went to pick up the… Continue reading Lab Week

You know how you would say to a little girl that she does so well with her blood draw tell… Continue reading Big Woman

One day as I walked in to the lab, I saw a pregnant lady crying inside our draw room. She… Continue reading Instant Karma

I used to work for a high volume Trauma Center and I had gotten a call from one of the… Continue reading Inventory Issue

A nurse brought a urine specimen to the laboratory.  Even though we have a paperless electronic system, the specimen came… Continue reading Lab Week Prank

I worked at a pediatric cancer center. One night we received a urine sample from one of our patients. We… Continue reading The Urine That Wasn’t

Ah yes, the urgent blood culture. I shall just speak to the germs and ask if they would mind growing… Continue reading Urgent Blood Culture

We have a big class of over 150 students. Imagine 150 interns in this huge laboratory run mostly by student… Continue reading Special Ingredient

Went to our skilled nursing facility to draw blood on one of the residents. I usually engage on a conversation… Continue reading Bloody Mary