I was passing by the pantry and saw Ko in a polo t-shirt.

Me: ...you've grown moobs.
Ko: Yay, now I can play with my own boobs instead of someone else's! *jiggles chest*

(Teh Boyz are a group of junior MLTs between 25-27 who do and say the oddest things. They are very amusing.)
( Here is a dialogue-heavy story. )

Long story short:

A patient gave three bottles of semen for analysis because the nurse collecting the sample thought you collected semen (average 1-5 mls) like urine (minimum 10 mls), and told the patient, "NOT ENOUGH, MAKE MORE."

Worst of all, we received it 2 hours after collection time so the results would be inaccurate, and that's not ( Read more... )

Shortly after I attended a Miyavi concert, I suffered neck and wrist pain from headbanging too much (lady_sb calls it Post-Live Syndrome). On Friday I went to see the doctor to ask for some cream to put on the neck. The current staff health doctor is an old lady (for context), so after waiting for an hour to see her ( Read more... )

So a nurse calls me up.

Nurse: May I speak to Sujatha?
(Sujatha is the person who's been at the Special Chemistry bench for 7 years - she left to be a Clinical Instructor).Me: Sujatha doesn't work here anymore ( Read more... )

I'm no good at making life updates because I've always felt that some things are better off being told in person.

But after telling the same story five times in a row, something needs to be done.

( In here be piccies of life. Very boring. )

The following ridiculosities occurred between 9 AM and 6 PM today:

1. Heart bypass patients bring their own donors on the day of the operation as the doctor prefers freshly donated blood. Today one patient's family requested the patient be transfused with blood donated by an 'Eric' (name changed) and NOBODY ELSE'S because they did not know who ( Read more... )

New work policy requires executives to create their own scorecard for key performance indicators (KPI) using the company portal. My colleagues being procrastinators (who also type rather slowly), they've only started creating it today despite the deadline on the 31st ( Read more... )

Last night during night call, I had the following conversation with a nurse ( Read more... )

Which isn't good given how crappy the world is at the moment, but sometimes I just need to get angry.

The following is an educational post about how to ensure a smooth ride when you have to go for a blood test. I'm wondering whether to crosspost it to Facebook.

( It may be slightly vitriolic, but nothing you haven't seen or heard before. )