I never get to nerd out about bloodwork enough! I used to be a phlebotomist, studied biomedical science at uni and still work in path lab adjacent fields (although virology was my main passion).
To train as a phlebotomist meant having to practice on our colleagues which meant needing to offer up your own arm when the time came to train newbies. I was kind of the perfect subject as im sufficiently pale with big enough veins that you don’t even need to identify the good ones by touch…
I never get to nerd out about bloodwork enough! I used to be a phlebotomist, studied biomedical science at uni and still work in path lab adjacent fields (although virology was my main passion).
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To train as a phlebotomist meant having to practice on our colleagues which meant needing to offer up your own arm when the time came to train newbies. I was kind of the perfect subject as im sufficiently pale with big enough veins that you don’t even need to identify the good ones by touch…