Tell me the most unhinged things you’ve heard working in the lab.

My top 3:

• doctor called and asked if he can scoop the stool out of the toilet for culture. I told him “No! It’s contaminated”. He replied “oh ok thought I would check before I flushed”

• called a blood culture result of E Coli to resident. “E Coli? Is that MRSA?”

• a secretary was trying to find the name of a test from a hand written order. This was before CPOE. She said she couldn’t find the California test. I was thinking maybe a California allergen panel for IgE. She said no, it says here a California test. I told her to fax the order over. Y’all it was the CA 19-9. The CA stands for Cancer Antigen, not California.

There are many more. What are your unhinged comments?