Doctors, Nurses, And Dentists Are Sharing The Most Obvious Lies A Patient Has Ever Told Them

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“I’m a medical laboratory scientist. I’m the guy who plays with all the stuff your mother told you never to touch. One day, a labor and delivery patient drops in and decides to have her baby. She had no prenatal care. The nurse draws her blood and sends it to the lab. I do a type and screen (Blood type and Rh). We do this for all patients because lab people are paranoid. Patient tested as A Positive; in the computer, her history showed B Positive. I sent the phlebotomist to draw her blood because lab people are paranoid. Still A Positive. I dive into the history and, yep, two years previously, I was the one who typed her as B Positive.”

“This time, I draw her blood (because lab people are paranoid), let the nurses know there is a blood bank discrepancy, and call the physician. We can’t give type-specific blood if she needs it; we have to give her O Negative and start an investigation. (Blood types don’t change except for very rare circumstances.) As I was retyping her for the third time (still A Positive), the nurse called me, laughing. Our mama-to-be was admitted under her sister’s name. She had stolen her sister’s Medicaid card instead of getting one of her own. She didn’t want her folks to know she was pregnant.”

—MLSGeek