I just have to share.
10-13-2011, 09:36 AM
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I was a lab tech way back in the 50's & 60's and we were lucky enough to go around the hospital doing our own blood draws before going back to the lab. That was my favorite part, to meet the patients.
Can you imagine, in this day and age, if you had to sharpen your own needles? Vacutainers?? We had to wash and sterilize our own glass syringe parts and then try to match up plungers and barrels so the plunger would go into a barrel without blood being able to leak out around the edges!! And then take the needle off to put the contents into test tubes. Most of the testing was done "manually". Blood counters were just coming in.
In the lab we ran a "normal" blood sample every morning to calibrate and guess who were the "normal" samples!! That's how I found out that I had Mono!
Ah, thanks for the memories!! Enjoy your career!
Can you imagine, in this day and age, if you had to sharpen your own needles? Vacutainers?? We had to wash and sterilize our own glass syringe parts and then try to match up plungers and barrels so the plunger would go into a barrel without blood being able to leak out around the edges!! And then take the needle off to put the contents into test tubes. Most of the testing was done "manually". Blood counters were just coming in.
In the lab we ran a "normal" blood sample every morning to calibrate and guess who were the "normal" samples!! That's how I found out that I had Mono!
Ah, thanks for the memories!! Enjoy your career!
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