TB

[asterroc]

I had my TB PPD injection today. It was nothing like my bizarre dream from this morning. It was also nothing like I remembered. I remembered a unit that simultaneously sticks you with some six small needles, looking kinda like a rubber stamper, and it was instead a stereotypical needle. Am I misremebering, or did they use to do things differently, or do different places do it differently?

Friday I go back to have it "read."

Comments

[sammka.livejournal.com]

No they totally used to do it that way. I don't know what changed.

[zandperl.livejournal.com]

When'd they stop requiring it for colleges and employment too? Was that a federal law, or each college's policy? I think I had to do it to go to college (1996), but not for grad school (2000), nor my job (2004).

[sammka.livejournal.com]

Might have had to do with dorm living.

I had to get a TB test for my internship working with the mentally ill, but subsequent jobs haven't required it because I don't work closely enough with high-risk populations.

[(Anonymous)]

the test with one needle is more accurate, they don't really use the others too much anymore.