Have you ever tried to catch something behind yourself, or under yourself in a high squatting position? Something your body has some deep learning about not touching? Seems like labs would get a better response with putting some used TP in a bag.
Yeah, I'll tell you why. I was asked for a stool sample once (don't ask). I looked at that tiny perspex cylinder with the tiny little fairy spoon in it and it was immediately obvious: nuh-huh. No way. I'm not handing my shit in a tube to some poor health person. Nope. No. Never. No way.
TFE: Too Fucking Embarassing!
You medical people have to think harder about all the things you ask your patients to do. Colonoscopies? Specula? Prostate exams? Shoving a rod up your nostrils to get samples for Covid? Come on. The human body is not just a machine. There's a little person inside that feels every single thing.
- crap, but catch some on toilet paper
- scoop some with little spoon - tests need almost nothing
- send off to lab
it was astounding how few samples we got, even from hospitals, that managed this.