Category: LOL Moments

I don’t know about other schools, but the MedTech school I went to had a certain way of doing things. When we started learning about phlebotomy, we didn’t have a dummy at all to practice on—we had to practice on our classmates (all human and can feel pain). ? However, what’s more interesting, is when… Continue reading Semen Analysis at School

It’s the middle of the night and I went out to do a timed draw. I walk into the patient’s room and the nurse was trying to get the patient off the bed pan and was waiting for someone to come assist her. She told me to come back later when they're done so I… Continue reading Trying to Help

We got a call from a hospital saying that a patient just had a bad transfusion reaction. We instructed them to stop the transfusion and send us the unit that was transfused along with extra tubes of blood for the necessary investigation. When we received the unit back it looked like a piece of liver… Continue reading Warmed Blood Unit

I have to draw blood from an 8 year old kid who was obviously very scared of needles. Both his mom and dad have to hold him down because he is determined to not get poked. He was thrashing around until dad finally had a nice grip on his arm. “Here’s my chance!” I said… Continue reading Kick to the Groin

I went to draw this older lady who has a C. diff at that time. Went to her room, and immediately, she told me that I stink. Her words were “Eeeeww, you stink!!!” In my mind, WTF?! I could not believe she had the nerve to say that I stink—she’s the one who has the… Continue reading Ewww You Stink!!

I used to worked at this hospital where the nurses draw blood from their ICU patients. One day, we received a blood sample collected in a blue top tube. The test was for a PT/INR. I promptly spun down the sample and ran it. It took a while to run and finally an error came… Continue reading Excess Tap Water

I was working in a specialized lab dealing with coagulation disorders for a decade. Once someone from another lab or doctor's office called me wanting the fiks analysis (Norwegian spelling). "Fiks?", I answered hesitantly, "We don't have any analysis called that." Took me quite a little while to understand it was coagulation factor 9 (F… Continue reading Fixed It!

Draw station was really noisy and a patient grabbed my coworker and pulled her into the restroom so she could hear him. She came out carrying a semen sample.  We commended her on her customer service skills.  Lol. Submitted by:Fran SUSA

I was working UPMC SHY night shift and went into the breakroom, I had a Mt Dew that had been sitting awhile and the ice was melted looked a bit like urine. It was April Fool's Day, so I got a urine cup and label it poured it in and bagged it up. When the… Continue reading Smells Sweet Tastes Sweet

The patient who was requested to bring a stool specimen for fat analysis. He was told to keep it all refrigerated during the 72 hours of collection.  He returned with 72 days of collection. In a wheelbarrow.  He was asked to repeat the collection. Submitted by:Carol WatkinsUSA