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No Growth, No Sensitivity

Nurse called looking for sensitivities on a urine culture. I told her that the culture was no growth. She said that they still needed the sensitivities.

She continued to insist that the doctor needed to have them even after I had explained numerous times that there was no organism recovered for sensitivities.

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She hung up the phone fuming mad because I wouldn’t give her sensitivity results.

Submitted by:
Pamela Coates
Medical Technologist/Scientist
Virginia, USA

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