My most embarrassing patient care moment ever. Another phlebotomist, young and innocent, asked for my help with a difficult stick. My very pregnant self came in, did all the normal introductions, identification, etc. Things are going great. Then I asked “please make a fist in me”.
Swear I turned red as a tomato. I look at the other phlebotomist and she looks like she’s about to fall out. I pray he (patient) hasn’t heard me.
He looks at me and said, well I know how you got in your current situation and what you’re doing when you leave work today.
I tried explaining what I meant to say ….but alas, he’ll always remember me as “the kinky, horny, pregnant vampire”.
Submitted by:
Summer Shank
Phlebotomist
Florida, USA
