First week in my histology training rotation, I got an unlabeled surgical specimen and stopped the RN before she got 5 feet away.
Name was on it, but not what the specimen was.
She said it was just a piece of ass. So I wrote that in the log book, thinking it was a wart or something off someone’s bum.
The pathologist laughed so hard I thought he was going to split a gut. Turns out it was a piece of vas (deferens).
This was back in the 70’s before computers and everything was done by hand. It’s a wonder we lived through it.
Submitted by:
Karen Mora
Medical Technologist/Scientist
USA
