Now imagine receiving a slide looking at these features and then no one tells you the origin of the specimen?
I know that all too well. I get specimens labeled "swabs" for sources here and there. The floor seems to have trouble understanding the source affects the diagnosis greatly when we recover organisms.
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Ikr? sometimes we receive pieces of flesh or aspirate smears where it takes hours to days worth of delay just to get in contact with the folks/institution that sent it. This tiny detail really grinds my gears as I have to go through different people just to search for the one that sent the specimen in the lab for reference.
Literally affects patient care.