Yesterday, while I was wrapping up the cross matching I was doing, my senior told me there’s a “PCV patient”. Couldn’t hear it clearly at first so I just shrugged it, thinking he was just telling it just because. Then he asked me if I wanted to bleed the patient; turns out it was the P C V as in Polycythemia Vera, a low-growing blood cancer in which your bone marrow makes too many red blood cells (© Mayo Clinic) and it was her schedule for Therapeutic Phlebotomy.

Had to check her CBC result and it really matches the theoretical criteria of the disease. Her blood was indeed thick!!! Yikes, I miss Hematology.

Okay, I had to post it!!! Can’t believe I was only reading/ hearing from my clinical instructors/ imagining this case two years ago and now, I just encountered it irl!!! Again, every day is a new learning experience!