Name Your Poison Safety First and Always

NAME YOUR POISON SAFETY FIRST AND ALWAYS 

I know which side my bread is buttered. John Heywood, Proverbs (154Q 

It was Kermit s turn to serve. I leaned forward, ready to chip the ball back and storm the net. My competitive self was silently coaching me This guy is going down. He shouldn t be winning. He s playing over his head.  

I was lying on the court, my knee locked in a slightly flexed position. Sitting there, unable to get up right away, I knew a double dose of bad luck had struck. I surely wasn t going to play any more tennis for a while. Worse, the accident came just as I was preparing to conduct a rntgor indoor field test with BZ. 

I was in California at the time, spending two years at Stanford as a postdoctoral student, courtesy of the Army. Dr. Fred Sidell, who had taken over as acting Dq)artment Chief, told me the horrible story in a letter. I imagined the shock that everyone in the Medical Laboratories must have experienced and felt very sad, but grateful not to have had to endure it all up close. 

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Name Your Poison Safety First and Always... 

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