Category: LOL Moments

A patient came in for blood typing for a possible blood donation. According to the patient, this was going to be his second time donating blood. He also told me it’s been a while since he last donated blood.So I asked the patient if he remembers his blood type. He answered me with certainty that… Continue reading I’m Pretty Sure of My Blood Type!

A cold dark night shift. The silence covers the whole lab and the ghosts are whispering around us. I was in a deep sleep. Suddenly, my co-worker screamed my name!!! I woke up really scared ..he was doing a urinalysis and he said :" there is a monster in this urine sample ." I saw… Continue reading Urine Monster

Surgical tech came to us in Blood Bank which is located on a different floor as the main lab. He told me that he has an important note for Mike in the lab. I told him we had no one by that name. He showed me the note it said: for "Mike Rowe". Took me… Continue reading Mike Rowe

Nurse wanting to add H&H to CBC drawn earlier. We kept going back and forth that she has H&H already. However, she insisted she did not. So I asked her to put me on hold while she checked her CBC result. When she  saw the H&H, she could come back on the line and apologize for… Continue reading Verbal Test Addon

It was a busy night and I had to get a bunch of morning draws (no phlebs that day). I was going room to room when I noticed a couple of people leave the next room I was headed to. The light was already on when I went in, so I started with, "Hello, my… Continue reading Call Light

This story happened when I first started working in the United States as a Clinical Laboratory Professional. I can speak English really well, but some of the slangs I’m not very familiar of. For instance, I wasn’t aware that there’s a difference between “piss” and “pee”. I will soon find out. One day, I was… Continue reading Piss in the Cup

I was working in the blood bank when I received a call from an OR surgeon. He sounded very impatient and asked for the FFP he ordered STAT. Me: We sent you two plasmas just now. Your CNA is bringing them. Doctor: OK, but I asked for FFP!! Me: 🤦‍♂️ Submitted by:Tres LehfeeteeMedical TechnologistUSA

Went to the ER to draw blood on a 60-year old female patient. FYI, I’m in my mid-30s. When I got to the bedside, the patient smiled at me and said “oh, a man! I always liked to be man-handled! I just smiled. While I was drawing her right arm, her left arm grabbed my… Continue reading Cougar Alert

I had an older patient who had an order for a stool culture.  When she came in, I asked her if she wants to collect the poop here in our lab restroom or at home. She whispered to me and said “I had an accident on my underwear, do you think I can use that… Continue reading Accidents Happen

I used to work in a lab where at that time, we did not have any plastic wide-mouthed containers for stool samples. So, patients can submit stool specimens using any containers they can find. There was one specimen where the container was a clear, transparent, 32-oz Mason jar, and where you can literally see all the… Continue reading Container Matters