Strange Medical Tales From My Patients

[tytal]

I think I'll start writing short little tales about the funny things that happen to all my patients before I forget. Here's a short one to start.

Before the whole Snakes Liquids On A Plane debacle, our patients would often collect 24-hour urine samples while travelling from wherever they may be to our hospital. (Now they collect them before and

Comments

[oshunanat]

Oh gods!

I used to work at a medical lab that did testing and occasionally we got jugs of 24 hour urine collections. How often they leaked because they expanded during the freezing process. Hate -.-

(Here from C_S)

[tytal]

Well, now they collect it, write down the times, volume, and send a small sample by DHL. We send them home with kits. What a fucking mess, I have to say.

[oshunanat]

Yeah. That's the smart way of doing it, but the couriers that we used get it as the full jugs and they often didn't have the stuff to make splits. I'd say the number of splits to whole jugs was maybe 1:8 (if we were lucky)

[soberloki]

OMFG, Doll.

Yeah, I'd be pretty horrified if I wound up pissing all over a lot of stuff - by proxy, no less.

[tytal]

I have even worse ones to tell. I just have to think of them all. heheh.

[lillyflowers]

Oh.
My.
God.
Ew.

Just. ewwwww.

And roflmao.

[wwembley]

wow... the top popped off? that's intense. i thought they were meant to withstand stuff like that.