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I have to draw blood on an ER patient. She is a 15 year old who is deathly scared of ...

I work at a small town hospital in Central Florida. 25 beds to be exact. Part of the charm of ...

We’ve always received stool specimens from patients in a lab-provided container. Well, one day, a patient handed me a rather ...

I have been working in the laboratory profession for over 45 years. But back when I first started, my RN ...

During my first year in the lab, I was fascinated by dry ice. I had never worked with it before ...

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 ...