Musings from a tired microbiologist: if you place an order for both sputum AND urine culture, please send them in separate containers. I appreciate minimizing healthcare waste as much as possible... but not in this case. Please send two containers. Just… trust me on this one.
Musings from a tired microbiologist: When sending a sample from a chronic pleural effusion, please draw it from a new, clean pleurx catheter. Do not send us the whole pleurx bottle along with all the tubing in a biohaz bag because that's just contaminated fluid to me. And junk. A lot of junk.
Hi, Logan! Thank you for making this! Can I be added to the Clin Micro pack too?
Wake up #IDSky!!! #Meal-ioidosis totals just jumped by ~$9k!!! Thank you to whoever you are!!! #HCWvsHunger
This was a wild ride from beginning to end. Thank you for sharing this.
I’m going to accost my coworkers with it from now on.
Musings from a bemused microbiologist: While I'm always happy to have more tissue for culturing (bigger is better), I don't want the whole toe or finger or armpit. The skin will contaminate the sterile cup, making it harder to know what's real vs colonization.
Judicious tissues please. Thanks!
Musing from a tired microbiologist: If you want to send a tick or parasite to the lab, you just need to send it in the sterile cup. Please don't stick the tick to a label, then put the label in the cup. We can't remove the tick from the label without ripping it apart, which is not great. Thanks!
Musing from a tired microbiologist: if you have a sterile OR site, please do not wipe it with gauze - and then send the dirty gauze to the lab for either culturing or histopath. That is technically garbage, NOT a specimen. Thank you.
Thank you for all the starter packs! I do both ID and med micro; could I get space in one of the packs in the future? 🥺
Voted!!
I mean, I mail voted but it took FOREVER to get counted, and now it is so yay!
Trying to get my feet under me with the butterflies. I’ll be scouring for other ID and clinical micro docs and groups. I rarely post but I like keeping up with more prolific social butterflies.
