Recently a friend chastised me for saying in an email that I had to see the vampires, on the basis that phlebotomists don't drink the blood they collect (well, not in front of the patients anyway). So I had to chuckle to myself when this morning the phlebotomist got out a tourniquet that looked like this:

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Brillant - this made my chuckle. My friend who is training to be a clinical scientist, and works with blood, calls them vampires too so must be true!
I'm just amused that you had to go to paediatric phlebotomy!
Er, well actually I didn't, it was oncology phlebotomy, but we're all God's children so....
I came across a reference in a book by Dallas Willard to 'vampire Christians' who are only interested in Jesus for his blood.....