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Tell Us Your Lab Story

Share your lab experience with ADVANCE and we'll give you $25.


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Tell us your story, and you may be featured in an upcoming issue or Web update of ADVANCE for Medical Laboratory Professionals! If your story is chosen, you'll win $25! Tell us about your experiences with any of the following scenarios or share your unique story idea. E-mail your story, with your name, credentials, title, facility and location, to Editorial Assistant Amanda Koehler at akoehler@advanceweb.com. We'd also love to use your headshot or photos, so send those along as well.

  • How did you get into the lab profession?
  • Describe a friendship you've formed with a coworker.
  • Tell us about a funny/embarrassing story from the lab.
  • What's your hobby outside of work ... how you started it, what you enjoy about it.
  • How your job has impacted your life?
  • Tell us about a time when you made your lab a better place to work.
  • How have you become a "juggler," handling work, school, a family, etc.
  • How have you overcame an obstacle and still remained a professional laboratorian (e.g., an illness, etc.)?
  • Tell us about a time you made or contributed to a life-altering/life-saving diagnosis.  

 

When I was working at a local hospital just after graduating from med tech school, I remember an incident that I will never forget. Late one night as a coworker was working the overnight shift, a strange incident occured in the laboratory. As she was entering the main laboratory testing area, she smelled a very unusual smell. It smelled like someone had just lit a match. With her concern and the safety of the lab in mind, she called the lab manager who insisted that she call a code red. With in a few minutes, several men showed up with their masks and fire gear and the manager arrived still half asleep from being wakened by the phone call. They searched the area for a good hour and found nothing. The next day, as the processing associate began to perform her daily tasks, she heard a loud noise and dodged a paint can cap as it flung across the room. Apparently, a 24 hour stool was placed on the counter the previous evening. The gas had accumilated so much in the can that it literally exploded. I am sure that the lab manager will never forget being called in to work over a situation like this. To this day I am not sure if the fire department was notified of the actual findings in their investigation either.

Naomi Scianna,  MT(ASCP),  Advocate Good Shepherd HospitalApril 07, 2009
Barrington, IL




     

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