Bill Visits the Lab — Transcript

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1. 0:00hey Bill yeah boss the pneumatic tube
2. 0:03system isn't working I need you to run
3. 0:05this specimen down to the lab the lab
4. 0:07where's that it's down there
5. 0:10somewhere wait what like the basement
6. 0:13beyond the basement take the stairs down
7. 0:16further than you've ever been before
8. 0:17when you think you've reached the bottom
9. 0:20keep going eventually you'll find
10. 0:22yourself in an unfamiliar Place full of
11. 0:24long dark windowless hallways the only
12. 0:27sound you'll hear is that of your
13. 0:29Beating Heart and trembling breath
14. 0:33well how will I find it the lab
15. 0:36it'll find you
16. 0:39um hi
17. 0:43is this the lab
18. 0:48oh
19. 0:50is that blood do you have a specimen
20. 0:53yeah here you go
21. 0:55where's the barcode I'm I'm sorry
22. 0:58there's no barcode you just handed me
23. 1:01Anonymous purulence in a test tube oh
24. 1:04well I have the patient's name the
25. 1:06patient is the barcode
26. 1:08what to us down here the patient is a
27. 1:12tube the tube contains data it is my job
28. 1:16to mine the data a job I cannot do
29. 1:18without a 2d barcode the patient is the
30. 1:22barcode
31. 1:23okay
32. 1:25so you're one of the lab techs down here
33. 1:27I'm a molecular technologist yes we are
34. 1:30the Unseen unheard fraggles who convert
35. 1:33your patients purulence into numbers on
36. 1:35a page that you read during rounds do
37. 1:39you like it we have no time to like or
38. 1:41dislike we have DNA to extract we must
39. 1:44procure four nanograms of DNA DNA is
40. 1:46data we mine the data it is the will of
41. 1:49the Pathologists that we mine the data
42. 1:51oh the pathologist I like him
43. 1:54pathologists
44. 1:58communicating their orders in a language
45. 2:00no one is taught but is necessary to
46. 2:02survive scrape 18 micro streck Buffy
47. 2:05coat five heams thy will be done
48. 2:09I don't know Pathologists seem nice of
49. 2:12course they do sitting up there in their
50. 2:13cushy offices sipping Swiss Miss
51. 2:15wreaking of work-life balance well this
52. 2:18seems like an okay place to work at
53. 2:20least it's quiet oh yes it's quiet
54. 2:22except for the Roaring fans of the Fume
55. 2:24hoods the beeping of the machines and
56. 2:26the incessant den of 2D barcode readers
57. 2:30okay
58. 2:31um do you need anything else from me uh
59. 2:34no I got everything thanks for stopping
60. 2:35by