willbeflight
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OK guys, I want to start this out by saying that this could only happen to me! While I am in school, I left my job at the Internal Medicine office and started doing phlebotomy at the hospital on second shift. You won't believe this stuff.....
It's around four o'clock in the afternoon, (today) and I get a call in the lab to come and draw a stat glucose on a patient.
I get to the room, and this poor patient has NO veins! He has sores on his arms, and I don't wanna torture him. I decide to do a finger stick and just fill a Peds Chem tube. I tell the patient what I am about to do. He just looks at me and puts his head back down, so I get to work! I get about two or three drops in the tube....and then nothing. I look up at the patient, just to discover, that while I am busy trying to milk blood from his finger, he has expired!!! I can't make this stuff up! I will refuse a stat glucose next time! LOL :blush:
It's around four o'clock in the afternoon, (today) and I get a call in the lab to come and draw a stat glucose on a patient.
I get to the room, and this poor patient has NO veins! He has sores on his arms, and I don't wanna torture him. I decide to do a finger stick and just fill a Peds Chem tube. I tell the patient what I am about to do. He just looks at me and puts his head back down, so I get to work! I get about two or three drops in the tube....and then nothing. I look up at the patient, just to discover, that while I am busy trying to milk blood from his finger, he has expired!!! I can't make this stuff up! I will refuse a stat glucose next time! LOL :blush: