• Question: what is the most embarrising thing that has ever happend to you on the job

    Asked by renhares1 to Anna, Jonathan, Samantha, Sam on 4 Jul 2012.
    • Photo: Jonathan Kay

      Jonathan Kay answered on 4 Jul 2012:

      I was working as a very junior resident pathologist in the middle of the night and the Professor of Medicine came to discuss a patient’s blood cells. You have to stain the cells to see them. I couldn’t get the staining right. He was very good about it. I still shudder when I think about it. I learnt how to do it properly very soon after that.

    • Photo: Sam Chilka

      Sam Chilka answered on 4 Jul 2012:

      This can happen to anyone in any job really – but I was in a lift, talking to a colleague about someone we both knew, and being a bit rude about them. I suddenly realised the person I was talking about was standing behind me… Oh dear…!

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