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Not many people know about what happens when you pee in a cup, have to send in your poop, or have blood drawn. And I like telling stories from work.

I'm here to open the lid on the "magic box" that is the clinical laboratory.

I'll also include other interesting medically-related things as I find them.



Untold Stories of the Clinical Laboratory

realfakescientist:

rotiferola:

infinity-imagined:

Time lapse of epithelial cells undergoing mitosis.

forever reblog

biology at work :3

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A funny thing happened…

We got down a sound culture swab from a female patient in the ER with no specimen source on it.

I called the nurse of the patient, a male, to ask what the source was.

He acted a tad flustered, and said “Well, it says it’s genital here, umm, yeah… genital. I mean, I think she has an abscess…”

I thanked him, and checked the accession number in the computer to find that the source was listed as “vulva”.

The nurse just didn’t want to say the term out loud, I guess. haha

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dead-men-talking: beanerschnitzel: bone cancer.
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usmlepathslides: Asymptomatic patientThis is a normal smear. Note the uniformity of the RBCs, the normal amount of central pallor, and the compression pallor induced by platelets sitting on top of the RBC membrane. This can be confused with malarial ring forms.
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insane-in-the-meninges: Gram stain of acute bacterial meningitis.
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scientistintraining: Infectious Mononucleosis - 1. Large irregular atypical lymphocytes seen in the peripheral blood of a patient with infectious mononucleosis. The indentation of the cytoplasm of the lymphocyte (arrows) by red blood cells gives rise to the classic “Dutch skirt” appearance of the border. Author: Peter Maslak; Susan McKenzie
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thedeluminator: Gram Positive Cocci staining 100x
Diagnoses of the day

“Hurtin all over” - I live in the south.

“Right heart failure” - Doctor?!

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medicalschool: Staphylococcus aureus bacteria
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laboratorysciencereview: laboratoryscience: I’m a serological sleuth! If you’re ever in need of a blood transfusion, rest assured I will find any unexpected antibodies. Such a cool picture! A+!
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