Category: LOL Moments

My first year as a tech back in 1981 we had a lady bring in her stool specimen. The container was an 8 oz jelly jar filled to the top, level to the lip. On the outside she had included a pretty, decorative label that says, “From the Kitchen of (Jane Doe), Made With Love”.… Continue reading Jelly Anyone???

My patient was an old lady, maybe around 70. She came in for blood work with her 2 other lady friends, who were in the same age range.  While I was trying to find a vein, I’ve positioned the patient’s arm to where her hand was close to my crotch—of course, unintentionally. Without any hint,… Continue reading Old Habits Die Hard

As a young Medical Technologist, my job was to do the morning draws, then go back to the lab and do startup and QC on the instruments. One morning, "Harry" refused to let me draw his glucose. I thanked him and said, "No problem. Less work for me". I told the secretary he had refused… Continue reading I AM That Bitch!

I was drawing this old lady, maybe around 70ish.  As I was drawing her blood, she started asking me questions.She said, “are you single?”. And I said yes. She then said, “you are so cute! I have a grandson that would want to date you!” I wasn’t sure how to respond. I just smiled, and… Continue reading Grandma is Pimpin’

I've met a few germophobes in over 10 years of working in the laboratory. We have to say the lab, from a microbiological standpoint, is one of the dirtiest and biologically hazardous places in the hospital. But nothing a bit of universal precaution won't help. The worst germophobe I've ever met, is an ER doctor… Continue reading Doctor Germophobe

I had just been to one ward drawing blood from a multihandicapped patient and had had to almost tie a knot of myself in order to reach in. It was a challenging pose but I made it successfully, and went on to the next ward. Here was a male patient about my own age, fairly… Continue reading Double Meaning

There was a scheduled draw on one of the patients on the floor. I've drawn her before. Because of her dementia, she can get extremely combative at times. Hence, I asked one of our techs to come with me and help stabilize her arm so I can draw her blood. Oh yes she was in… Continue reading Horny Bitches

So last week, we received a pleural body fluid with a cell count ordered. In our lab the processor usually sets these up including filtering the sample before it is ran on the DxH. After running it once, I got a cellular interference error. I figured it probably just needed another round of filtering but… Continue reading Grossing Out

I've only been a generalist lab tech for a few months while working in a small town hospital. Like any lab tech who's new on the job, everything seems overwhelming. There was this patient who was notoriously a hard-stick. One day, my colleagues sent me to "try" and draw this patient--kinda like an initiation for… Continue reading Make a Foot!

I was a supervisor on a 3-11 shift in a County/Teaching hospital and I went to check on the ER Lab. I ran into an intern who used to be one of my lab techs before he went to medical school. We caught up and I asked him if he had anything interesting going on… Continue reading Shot in Head in a Bar