Dear medical folken:

Music in the office during exams - good
Standard issue morning radio programs that do not involve sports or politics - good
Happy techs - good
Radio programs playing four decades of music - good
Taking blood pressure immediately after drawing blood samples, with the morning radio program playing Queen's "Another One Bites The Dust" - maybe not the best way to get a decent blood pressure rating

I'm just, y'know, saying




(I'm not ill. I went for my annual World Trade Center Health Registry exam today and they did a twelve-hour fasting blood draw, same as every year, and then moved me to another room and had a machine take my blood pressure, and the morning radio they had on was a decent enough program but it was, in fact, playing a Queen song I more normally associate with getting my heart rate up during aerobic exercise. Don't know whether it was Freddie Mercury or the fact that I had just been, y'know, stabbed in the arm vein but either way I don't think the initial blood pressure reading was timed as well as it could have been.)