Well it's similar here. The lab techs don't draw blood or collect samples. They just process them. Currently, there's a lab in the hospital near where I work with a whole bunch of my samples that I'm waiting to hear back on. Driving me nuts waiting but I suspect everything is fine. Routine tests during pregnancy but also a couple extra because I may have an infection plus suspect for gestational diabetes.
I'm fascinated by the whole thing. I really am. I remember biology glasses, setting the agar and putting different samples on it to see what weird and wonderful things grew as a result. Then looking at it under the microscope. And then looking at all sorts of stuff on slides etc. Trivial in comparison to what you do but it's the closest I've gotten. I really loved all that stuff.
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