[Just For Fun]

I was in a Hospital in Phnom Penh (Cambodia for the geographically challenged) recently patiently explaining, through a translator, why it was important to group the patient twice in seperate events and from seperate cell suspensions to a med tech. Out of the cornor on my eye I saw a ward nurse come in with an unlabelled blood tube, hand it to the tech on the next bench who grouped and Immediate Spin crossmatched it with a unit of blood while the nurse patiently waited. The IS crommatched (I can't make myself say compatible) unit was handed unlabelled to the nurse who flip-flopped back to the ward, undoubtably to transfuse it in the patient she may have collected the blood from.

This is in a place with no wrist bands, no real ID, often multiple patients per bed and all the while family members cooking in and outside the ward and literally hundreds of Dengue patients with drips in just wandering all over the place. Maybe grouping twice is not the priority here?

How am I "geographically challenged" if I didn't know that Phnom Penh was in Cambodia? Do you know all the capitals for all the countries in the world? All the med tech knowledge has pushed the non-essential info out of my brain. The capital of Cambodia? Non-essential.