LOL Moment Submissions

Calls a positive blood culture... Doctor: So you’re saying it’s a VRE Me: No, it’s gram positive cocci in pairs ...

OB/GYN Office, male patient for a CSA, he is calm & courteous as we go thru the usual pre-collection information ...

At my previous job, we collected specimens for paternity testing. People who called with questions about  paternity tests always offered up ...

Years ago, I went to a nursing unit to stick a patient. It was a tiny elderly lady curled up ...

I sent a patient to the restroom to collect a semen specimen in a paper cup. He was taking a ...

One night I had called for a cab to transport a stat to another facility.   A bit later a man ...

My phleb on midnight shift answered a phone call from a doctor notorious for being nasty when called in the ...

Doctor yelling at me for not reporting MRSA. Me: But, doctor it's Staphylococcus epidermis. Doctor: But it's resistant to oxacillin, ...

A cheeky young girl probably a high school student had an affair with her boyfriend and luck was not on ...

A very common thing I'm sure we all have dealt with, but my favorite are patients who lie even when ...

Just last week a new nurse came down to the lab to pick up blood. I was at my scope ...

I had given an outpatient the spill about collecting a urine drug screen and then I sat outside the bathroom ...

This is my most favorite answer to an 'on hold' call. When the tech was finally able to answer the ...

Nurse calls for special instructions on collecting a urine sample. I told her that the test required the sample to ...

Nurse wanting to add H&H to CBC drawn earlier. We kept going back and forth that she has H&H already ...

Surgical tech came to us in Blood Bank which is located on a different floor as the main lab. He ...

I had a patient walk into the lab. Without hesitating, she proceeded to pull down her pants to go to ...

When drawing blood in a dementia unit, a lady told me that if I stuck her with a needle, she ...