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Thank you for pointing this out! Amish people can trace their roots to German religious pilgrims. They speak a dialect based off outdated German (the language that the original immigrants spoke).

Pennsylvania Dutch =\= Dutch!

Asshole bleaching is a thing. Check it out!

3 years ago, I was exactly in your position. About to graduate with a BS in biology, and just discovered that MLS was a thing.

If you're interested in doing MLS as a career, you're going to have to be trained in MLS. Unfortunately it is close to impossible to get hired as an MLS without ASCP certification. And to get ASCP certification you need to have MLS education.

My advice to you: Google "MLS 4+1 programs" and see if any of them work for your situation. I found one that took me from BS in biology to ASCP certified in 10 months!

My experience with Ojibwe and Lakota is that the community is pretty open-minded about homosexuality. I was reading an IHS article on expanding HIV/AIDS care to cater to homosexual (particularly lesbian) members.

I had never really thought of what a Native American culture mindset would dictate about homosexuality, but I admit I was pleasantly surprised to learn how much of a "non-issue" it seemed to be. Like being gay was being left-handed or having green eyes.

I'm going to add here, that one of the major reasons we need so many tubes from you is that different tubes are for different tests. For example, your doc wants to know how many white blood cells you have. That test requires a "lavender top" tube. Lavender top tubes contain a special preservative that help your blood cells stay intact, and prevents the blood from getting all clotted up en route to the lab. Now say your doc ALSO wants to know what your potassium levels are. Unfortunately, we can't measure your potassium levels from a lavender top tube because that preservative contains potassium. If we were to measure a potassium level on a lavender top tube, the machine would read a lethal level. Which of course isn't actually true--it's the just preservative getting in the way. So to avoid this, another tube (gold or red top) is drawn.

All of us in the medical lab science profession are aware of this so-called one blood drop testing, and many of us are skeptical. We're not sure how this works yet, because even with the most advanced instruments that we all use, we still need 3 mL of blood in some cases.