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One night, I went to the ER to draw some labs on a patient. While I was in the hallway ...

I ran into a coworker at the grocery store. We were both checking out at the same time, but she ...

This happened before CLIA was implemented. At that time, lab techs do whatever they want in the lab—eat, drink, smoke, ...

I was on attachment in a lab setting on a rural area. I was helping with phlebotomy and received this ...

In the 30+ years I've been doing this job I have been called a lot of names. In the hospital ...

One day we received a clotted sample for a CBC so naturally I have to call the floor to have ...

I had labs to draw on a 10 year old girl and called her name to have her come in ...

A patient came in for blood typing for a possible blood donation. According to the patient, this was going to ...

A cold dark night shift. The silence covers the whole lab and the ghosts are whispering around us. I was ...

It was a busy night and I had to get a bunch of morning draws (no phlebs that day). I ...

This story happened when I first started working in the United States as a Clinical Laboratory Professional. I can speak ...

I was working in the blood bank when I received a call from an OR surgeon. He sounded very impatient ...

Went to the ER to draw blood on a 60-year old female patient. FYI, I’m in my mid-30s. When I ...

I had an older patient who had an order for a stool culture. When she came in, I asked her ...

I used to work in a lab where at that time, we did not have any plastic wide-mouthed containers for ...

We had an elderly patient drop off a 24-hour urine. Attached to the container was a long note written on ...

I've worked in the lab long enough to witness human creativity trying to use regular household items as a specimen ...

A home health nurse left shortly after dropping off a green top tube for a potassium level. Soon after, I ...