You know how some fortune tellers are into reading tea leaves? The gross bit that's left at the bottom of a tea cup after you drink it? Well. Nephrologists (kidney doctors) are big-time believers in reading the pee leaves. What the hell does that mean? It means that they don't trust the lab's report from the urinalysis. They have to see it for themselves under the microscope.
Okay...
No! It's not okay!!! Because most of the patients we've been consulted on have been in rooms pretty far from the Nephrology lair. Which means that I have to steal some of their pee, then carry it with me back to our lab set-up, several floors away. That's a lot time spent walking around the hospital with a cup o' stranger pee.
"So hey. Did you just pee in that jug? Okay great...I'm going to take some of your pee now. Yes. This is me, stealing some of your pee, from your pee jug. Now I'm walking away with it. Because the pee analyzing room is 7 floors down, and two units over. So I'll be walking around the hospital with your pee in my hand for quite some time."
I don't know how to end this. This rotation, that is. I'm just kidding!!! It's great! I love it! If you see me in the hallway this week, though, I wouldn't shake my hand. Or investigate the yellow stains on my white coat too closely... (oh come ON man, it's tea!)
....colored urine?
NO, JUST TEA.
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