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Normally when a patient were to ask what container can be used to put a stool sample in, we would ...

This story happened back before our previous lab manager retired. Talk about a dry sense of humor, hers is as ...

Before becoming an MLT, I was employed as a Clinical Laboratory Assistant. I clearly remember my VERY exciting first week ...

At times, there’s a thin line between downright stupidity and overwhelming curiosity. Here’s my dry ice story. One time, an ...

I was a fairly new phlebotomist at a rural hospital that got in patients from all over. One day I ...

I don’t know about other schools, but the MedTech school I went to had a certain way of doing things ...

It’s the middle of the night and I went out to do a timed draw. I walk into the patient’s ...

A few years ago, we received a pinworm paddle with poo smeared all over all sides of it....and a small ...

I went to draw this older lady who has a C. diff at that time. Went to her room, and ...

We got a call from a hospital saying that a patient just had a bad transfusion reaction. We instructed them ...

I have to draw blood from an 8 year old kid who was obviously very scared of needles. Both his ...

I used to worked at this hospital where the nurses draw blood from their ICU patients. One day, we received ...

I was working in a specialized lab dealing with coagulation disorders for a decade. Once someone from another lab or ...

The patient who was requested to bring a stool specimen for fat analysis. He was told to keep it all ...

I was working UPMC SHY night shift and went into the breakroom, I had a Mt Dew that had been ...

Draw station was really noisy and a patient grabbed my coworker and pulled her into the restroom so she could ...

A middle aged lady came in to the lab to have her blood drawn for thyroid testing. We were busier ...

I've been in the lab profession for over 35 years. Needless to say, I'm getting up there in age and ...