I’m a Hard Stick
I stalk my favorite phlebotomist — but only when he’s at work.
4 min readJul 21, 2023
“A hard stick is someone whose veins are difficult to locate. He is a difficult person to draw from because he is dehydrated or has veins that are too small. They may also be flat or difficult to compress. This makes incising them an uphill task. Encountering a hard stick is indeed a phlebotomist’s nightmare.” (Google search…
