LOL Moment Submissions

First, a little backstory. I live in a small town of 2000 people with a small 25-bed hospital. I live ...

A patient brought a stool specimen to the lab on a cut crystal butter dish with a cover. It was ...

I worked at an outpatient lab that was open on Sundays. Typically not a busy day, but I quickly name ...

I went to the nursing home right next to the hospital I work in to do my weekly lab draws ...

We had a patient walk in with an order for post vasectomy semen analysis. He had to collect the sample ...

Working in a small town has its perks, until you start hearing stories about yourself that makes you say, OMG ...

I took over as Laboratory Manager a few years back after our previous one retired. She was more of the ...

The phone rang, and it was a nurse from one of the floors. She asked, "Can you run a peak ...

I was on a ward taking early morning blood samples. I approached a man in his bed and explained what ...

This story was shared to be by a nurse who assisted the doctor in collecting a wet mount & pap ...

An afternoon in the ER and my coworker and I decided to tag team drawing cultures on a elderly male ...

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

You know how you would say to a little girl that she does so well with her blood draw tell ...

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

I used to work for a high volume Trauma Center and I had gotten a call from one of the ...

A nurse brought a urine specimen to the laboratory. Even though we have a paperless electronic system, the specimen came ...

I worked at a pediatric cancer center. One night we received a urine sample from one of our patients. We ...

Ah yes, the urgent blood culture. I shall just speak to the germs and ask if they would mind growing ...