Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2014/06/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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. >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Leica Users Group. >>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > > -- > Mark William Rabiner > Photographer > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/ > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information