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Sandettie Light Vessel Automatic tells us: "My dad's friend told us there's no such thing as gravity - it's just the weight of air holding us down". Tell us of times you've been floored by abject stupidity. "Whenever I read the Daily Express" is not a valid answer.

(, Thu 18 Mar 2010, 16:48)
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Microbiology
After my job in the electrical retailer, I got my current job in a hospital microbiology lab. Every specimen that comes in will have a form with it, detailing the patient's identity, a diagnosis, and a description of the sample sent. Most are quite straightforward. Some show a worrying lack of intelligence on the part of the doctors and nurses...

Diagnosis: Patient not passing urine.
Specimen: Urine.

Diagnosis: Constipation?
Specimen: Swab of left ankle.

Diagnosis: Rectal bleeding.
Specimen: Nose swab.

Diagnosis: Patient vomiting blood.
Specimen: Penile swab.

Diagnosis: Infertility.
Specimen: Ear swab.

Diagnosis: Diarrhoea.
Specimen: Tongue swab.

And it's not just patients that have trouble with diarrhoea. One form read:
Diagnosis: Patient has diahorhea(crossed out) diaoreah(crossed out) diahorrea(crossed out) diaorhaea(crossed out) the shits.

Giving the results out can be just as problematic:

Me: ...and there's no bacterial growth.
Nurse: Oh... so what antibiotics should we be using?

Me: {after searching for a result on the computer} I'm sorry, we don't appear to have received that specimen.
Nurse: Oh dear. So when do we get the results?

Me: {trying to phone an urgent result} Do you have [this patient] with you?
Nurse: No
Me: Are you sure? Ward 10 said they transferred him to you last night.
Nurse: ....oh *THATS'S* who he is!!
(, Tue 23 Mar 2010, 23:27, 14 replies)

Been posted already.
(, Tue 23 Mar 2010, 23:45, closed)
Probably one of those that's been doing the rounds for the last 20 years.

(, Wed 24 Mar 2010, 0:03, closed)
Where?
By who? I've been collecting these bits for 10 years now, and my "little black book" is here with me... you've got me intrigued...
(, Wed 24 Mar 2010, 0:04, closed)

b3ta.com/questions/matron/post664998#post665000
(, Wed 24 Mar 2010, 1:29, closed)
That's mine!
Where the hell did he get all that from - I wrote that!!
(, Wed 24 Mar 2010, 2:00, closed)
Right you are
We believe you. Especially as you say you collect these bits, immediately before claiming authorship.

Originality is important here...
(, Wed 24 Mar 2010, 5:57, closed)
Oh gawd
This is only my second post on this site - and I'm already causing trouble...
I've been working in Microbiology, a division of the Pathology department for over 10 years. I've been collecting little "funnies" in a book for most of that time. I've made a couple of attempts at putting them online on my own websites, but have never got finished. Yes, I collected them, yes I wrote them down on the computer. Sandettie Light Vessel Automatic is a very good mate of mine, I'm guessing he copied an earlier attempt of mine, and used it here as he didn't know I was on the site (I joined yesterday).
So no, I didn't create them - the doctors and nurses did. Yes, I did collect them, and write them down to share. And no, I don't mind SLVA posting them, and I didn't mean my earlier posts to sound in any way angry towards him.

Sorry all.
(, Wed 24 Mar 2010, 7:05, closed)
He did as well
He sent me it some years ago.

I'm also wondering why he's online at 2am when he gets up for work before 6.
(, Wed 24 Mar 2010, 9:42, closed)
Hmmmmm,
because people who work in pathology labs often call them microbiology labs.
(, Wed 24 Mar 2010, 6:25, closed)
you're right, they do.
his dept is called micro. where they deal with piss/shit/spunk/phlegm samples, whereby those in the other section that deal with blood samples just call it the path. lab.
(, Wed 24 Mar 2010, 9:37, closed)
Hello you

(, Wed 24 Mar 2010, 10:00, closed)
epicly awesome
welcome aboard. Sad to see slva stole your thunder for what is otherwise a nice post.
(, Wed 24 Mar 2010, 11:31, closed)
I feel a right twunt now
Bloody typical that he should decide to join B3ta now.
(, Wed 24 Mar 2010, 14:17, closed)
Hehe!
Sorry, mate! I couldn't have timed it better! Or worse...

Beer, anyone?
(, Wed 24 Mar 2010, 16:16, closed)

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