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Subject: [Leica] Friendly Phlebotomist
From: hlritter at bex.net (Howard Ritter)
Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2014 10:41:15 -0400
References: <CFB3B663.1F313%mark@rabinergroup.com>

So you know whereof we speak! Congratulations on surviving your brush with 
the double-edged sword of modern medicine.

?howard


On Jun 3, 2014, at 5:29 PM, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> wrote:

> My dad a hematologist  in Chicago had a phlebotomists working for him at 
> his
> lab who woke me up every morning with a needle in my arm she was very
> personable and otherwise good at her job I was suffering from complications
> from Colitis it was December 1969 to January 1970.  I was in there three
> weeks almost bought the farm. They'd hide my blood counts from my dad as it
> was making him too nervous.
> "where's my sons blood count?"
> "it was here a minute ago!"
> But in the end I survived.
> But had gotten down to 138 pounds. Was packed at one point in ice as my 
> temp
> went to 106.
> An allergy to sulfa drugs.
> Then I had to do my homework.
> 
> 
> On 5/31/14 11:26 AM, "Howard Ritter" <hlritter at bex.net> wrote:
> 
>> Speaking as a retired haematologist and partner in a large clinic, I can 
>> tell
>> you that good phlebotomists are more precious than rubies and harder to 
>> find!
>> We do our best to keep them happy, but many of the best seem to be 
>> studying to
>> be nurses, so that we eventually lose them to career progression.
>> 
>> ?howard
>> 
>> On May 30, 2014, at 4:57 PM, Herbert Kanner <kanner at acm.org> wrote:
>> 
>>> I?ve got too many physicians and they all want blood. I?ve settled on the
>>> Stanford Lab, one of many, which is a convenient drive from my house. 
>>> For a
>>> long time, they had rotating blood drawers of varying degrees of 
>>> competence
>>> (ouch), but finally this one lady was hired as the permanent bloodsucker.
>>> 
>>> I?ve had to give her a hard time because of various physician screw-ups 
>>> to
>>> the extent that more than once I?ve had to call a physician?s office on 
>>> my
>>> mobile and have them fax her an order.
>>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/herbk1/L1003690.jpg.html
>>> 
>>> Herbert Kanner
>>> kanner at acm.org
>>> 650-326-8204
>>> 
>>> Question authority and the authorities will question you.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
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> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Mark William Rabiner
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