#phlebotomy isn't about blood phlebotomy is about meeting new people

[koruga]

I'm doing my clinical internship in a town known for its huge queer population and I gotta tell you, it's emotionally devastating to constantly be drawing blood from people who are cooler and gayer than I could ever be. My dinky pronoun pin is no match for the unadulerated raw power of a sixty year old who my two preceptors and I cannot figure out the gender of even all working together. I failed to draw blood from someone who's won a Tony. How am I supposed to recover.