My Trip to Quest Diagnostics

My Trip to Quest Diagnostics
a coloring and activity book
QuestDiagnostics.com/patient
There are many reasons to see a doctor.
Sometimes you are sick or have been in an accident.
Other times you are well, so you see your
doctor for a check-up.
In this picture, find the boat,
book, necktie, ring, kite, paintbrush, carrot,
slice of pie, ladder, banana
Sometimes your doctor wants to find out more about
your health by testing your blood so your doctor will
send you to Quest Diagnostics.
When you arrive at Quest Diagnostics a person
called a phlebotomist will take you and
your parent to a private room.
A phlebotomist [fluh-bot-uh-mist] is someone specially
trained to take a sample of your blood. Let’s see how
many words you can make from the word:
PHLEBOTOMIST
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When it is time to have your blood taken, you can sit in
the chair alone or on your parent’s lap.
The phlebotomist will wrap a stretchy rubber band called
a tourniquet (sounds like “turn-a-kit”) around your arm
and then clean the area with alcohol.
You can watch or look away, but it
is important for you to keep still.
Draw and color a happy scene in the frame.
You will feel a pinch, like getting a shot,
but it will be over quickly. Try counting to
three and blowing the pain away.
At Quest Diagnostics, the phlebotomist will
label your tube. You can write your name here.
Your blood will go into a small
tube labeled with your name.
Afterwards the phlebotomist
will put a small bandage on
your arm.
Later your sample will be picked up by one of
our drivers to go to our laboratory. Sometimes
it may even travel by airplane.
Can you help them get the blood sample to the lab?
WORD SCRAMBLE
You have learned many new words on this journey.
Let’s see how many you can find below:
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At the laboratory,
a person called
a lab technician
may look at your
blood under a
microscope to see
your blood cells.
Connect the dots to
find what else you can
look at under a
microscope.
Your blood sample will be tested for the information
your doctor needs.
Quest Diagnostics will send the results to your doctor.
The results tell your doctor how to take good care of you.
Red blood cells are round.
What shapes can you find in this picture?
Your doctor will give the results to your parent.
Quest Diagnostics and your doctor
work together to keep you healthy.
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Written by Lisa Bell King. Illustrated by Liz Kassler.