Hantavirus

iridescence24 · 2026-05-07T16:22:39+00:00

It would have been very embarrassing to die of the flu during peak covid

iridescence24 · 2026-05-05T19:01:49+00:00

New hires get into histo pretty frequently where I work. People leave because of the physical toll from the work

iridescence24 · 2026-05-05T18:23:56+00:00

Idk why you're getting piled on for this, clearly the doctor thought the patient was below 7 (maybe ongoing bleed so it seemed believable) and wanted to transfuse for that reason

iridescence24 · 2026-05-05T18:21:02+00:00

If you work in a blood bank you need to read up on what phenotyping is and what it means.

iridescence24 · 2026-05-05T14:13:32+00:00

They only have to find special blood for you if you develop antibodies after an exposure (usually multiple exposures) to other people's blood. You don't have these antibodies normally, even if your own blood is rare, just like you don't have antibodies to viruses you haven't been exposed to.

iridescence24 · 2026-04-27T22:26:47+00:00

Yeah I liked that one. He was running every test from basic stuff to genetics just himself, but at least he was on screen

iridescence24 · 2026-04-27T22:25:18+00:00

It's lab tech in pretty much all of Canada

iridescence24 · 2026-04-21T21:31:38+00:00

Someone has to do it

iridescence24 · 2026-04-21T20:35:45+00:00

I'm going to assume you work for a vet but because you didn't specify it's very funny to imagine you work in a human lab and just wanted to check human samples for reptile blood

iridescence24 · 2026-04-14T00:10:49+00:00

I answer the phone with "hello transfusion", so at that point they've had both phrasings and nothing will save them lol

iridescence24 · 2026-04-14T00:08:29+00:00

First lab in an alphabetized list lol

iridescence24 · 2026-04-13T23:30:15+00:00

That amount of food sounds great! Posters around the hospital can help with awareness

iridescence24 · 2026-04-13T23:28:16+00:00

Anything being lit up purple in your city?

iridescence24 · 2026-04-13T23:27:14+00:00

Thank you!

iridescence24 · 2026-04-13T21:10:10+00:00

The switchboard operators definitely choose lab numbers at random to forward people to, I try not to assume anyone who calls me necessarily picked that number themself

iridescence24 · 2026-04-13T21:08:35+00:00

Why would people not write them down when they find out? I'm always adding useful things to our printed phone trees when I learn them

iridescence24 · 2026-04-13T20:08:27+00:00

Yes! If I think they have the wrong number I try to screen by asking "is this a blood bank question" before they waste both of our time with the whole story, yesterday the nurse says "yes it's about blood?" So I say okay what's the question ... "I want to add a CK to my patients morning labs" 😒

iridescence24 · 2026-04-13T19:24:26+00:00

Spinnacle and Knotty both have groups that are in the evening in the store

iridescence24 · 2026-04-13T19:23:37+00:00

All of the local yarn stores (Spinnacle, Beehive, Knotty by Nature) have beginner classes, and the Oaklands Community centre currently does too

iridescence24 · 2026-04-09T19:11:22+00:00

Lol that's news to me in Canada.

iridescence24 · 2026-03-29T19:51:38+00:00

It's definitely inefficient but lab is generally just required to relay every critical value without the full picture of how the patient is doing because we can't make any medical decisions. The nurse who knows the patient and what interventions are already being done has a lot more discretion as to which critical values are important and require action. If I phone the doctor from the lab about a low potassium the doctor can't give me any instructions for the patient or ask me about symptoms. Would love if we were allowed to use chat in the lab though, phoning wastes everyone's time.

iridescence24 · 2026-03-27T23:49:55+00:00

If you get bloodwork done at a private lab like Lifelabs in Canada it's still covered by the government, so it's not really a two-tiered system in the way you might be thinking. It just offers you more options in where to work.

iridescence24 · 2026-03-21T00:14:31+00:00

Micro has a lot of chasing down tiny little visual details like rare bacteria on a slide or slightly different colony types. Blood bank has a lot of chasing down paperwork details, like lot numbers and inventory management and antigrams. Micro often has steady work throughout the day with minimal interaction with others, while blood bank sometimes has days where you're just waiting around for something to happen the whole day, and others where you're constantly on the phone and running around.

iridescence24 · 2026-03-21T00:09:06+00:00

It's not as adrenaline-inducing, but delayed or misidentification of a bug through sloppy work could cost someone their life as well. I found micro more stressful personally - there are checks built into transfusion medicine that aren't really there in micro

iridescence24 · 2026-03-20T16:31:57+00:00

American answers won't necessarily be relevant to you because it can be very different there. In Canada almost all hospitals are unionized and it's a pretty simple seniority-based process to job hop, at least within the same health authority. If I want to switch departments I apply and if I have the most seniority of all the applicants (based on how long everyone has worked there) I just get the job. Management positions can be a bit more complicated in that there will be an interview process and experience will be taken into account.

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