LOL Moment Submissions

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 ...

We have a big class of over 150 students. Imagine 150 interns in this huge laboratory run mostly by student ...

Went to our skilled nursing facility to draw blood on one of the residents. I usually engage on a conversation ...

Lazy Saturday morning in the lab. Morning labs all done and sitting in the lounge when I get called to ...

An elderly couple came into our clinic lab with a specimen. They were upset. The gentleman said he found shrimp ...

I just started a my new job in Anatomic Pathology at my current hospital. I was there maybe 2 weeks, ...

One day I was drawing blood on a patient. I noticed how anxious he was and had sweaty hands. I ...

My most embarrassing patient care moment ever. Another phlebotomist, young and innocent, asked for my help with a difficult stick ...

We’ve all heard of patients passing out while drawing blood. But you probably haven’t heard of other people passing out, ...

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 ...