Ahhh the wonderful world of blood transfusion
Back in the day when I was but a mere undergraduate student I worked part time as a lab tech in haematology and blood transfusion at my local hospital. My course involved a very interesting unit on forensic biology, including, amoung other things, blood splatter patterns.
The university lab practical involved splattering horse blood everywhere (obviously when the lecturer wasn't looking) was quite fun but did show some interesting results such as the "shape" of the blood drops flying at a resonably speed were the exact opposite shape to what you would think.
Next day I went to work with my new knowledge of blood splatter and informed my boss of the results I had got from my experiments the day before (something I often did because he thought, for some bizarre reason, that what I did at uni was interesting). His response?
"Really? We'll see about that. I just have to check whether these old viles of blood are ready to be chucked or not"
Off I went chuckling to myself about the fact I actually got to do the experiment so I knew what I said was right.
Five minutes later I wandered into the lab to see my boss (a senior biomedical scientist) chucking blood samples around trying to prove me wrong.
Honestly I though he was old enough to know better.
(tillyecl Tilly, Thu 7 Aug 2008, 18:54, Reply)