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One time, I put mustard in a stool specimen container, went upstairs, and sent it down the tube system. It ...

When I was a teenager, my first boyfriend dumped me for another girl. Broke my heart! 20 years later, I ...

This is an SOS —send help! I work for a hospital—-and they hire nurses here. Called because I had some ...

Had a patient who was mean and rude, and I had to draw blood on her. She actually threaten to ...

While working in hematology, I received a microtainer from our newborn nursery with orders to perform a CBC. As per ...

It was the last month of my internship days and I was assigned in Microbiology department. I love it here ...

I was drawing blood on a female patient. Her husband was in the same phlebotomy room. I did my usual ...

Over the of my career When working the night shift I have been called to draw blood from the ED ...

I was working the graveyard shift and received a wet prep specimen. The order specifically said to check for those ...

I work three 12-hour shifts at a family medicine/convenient care clinic, so every now and then we send patients home ...

I used to work at this hospital where the ER beds are right next to each other, separated by a ...

Back in the day, we needed first morning urine for pregnancy tests. A patient called asking what kind of container ...

We once had a gentleman who needed to submit a semen specimen—but instead, he kept bringing in urine samples. Not ...

A hospital lab received an EDTA sample for a full blood count on a young boy. The specimen looked partially ...

I used to work in a 1200-bed hospital back then in Texas. Great hospital, with a few not so great ...

So this happened quite a few years ago, but I remember it like it was yesterday. I work at one ...

A lady came in one day with an order for a 24 hour urine protein electrophoresis. The order was for ...

About 6 years ago, I was working in the molecular department at my lab when a coworker and I were ...