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-----Original Message----- From: Trevor Gray <[log in to unmask]> To: Mike Collins MSc FIBMS <[log in to unmask]> Cc: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]> Date: Thursday, October 22, 1998 22:56 Subject: Re: Reporting serum potassium in haemolysed specimens > >Incidentally is it (just) a sign of old age or are junior medical staff >becoming worse at phlebotomy as they now have so many assistants to take >blood. ? Our out-of-hours samples are now generally atrocious, small >and frequently haemolysed. I agree - When it was decided that Juniors were no longer to have to do the bloods round I wrote to the JDC [who were negotiating the NewDeal, or whatever it was at that time] and complained [I was an SHO at the time] but they ignored the argument that to get good at taking blood from difficult patients you had to get plenty of practice on easy ones. TIM **************************************************************************** ****************************************************** FROM: Prof. Tim Reynolds, Prof. of Chemical Pathology, Queen's Hospital, Belvedere Rd., Burton-on-Trent, Staffordshire, DE13 0RB, UK. fax +44 (0) 1283 593064 phone +44 (0) 1283 511511 ext. 4035 email: [log in to unmask] **************************************************************************** ****************************************************** %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%