File under: thoughts that keep me awake at night.
The further you get in medicine, the more awkward it is to ask why we measure both the hemoglobin and the hematocrit.
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File under: thoughts that keep me awake at night.
The further you get in medicine, the more awkward it is to ask why we measure both the hemoglobin and the hematocrit.
Action Potential 
Let me know if you find the answer. I’m now a PGY-19 and still don’t know.
Ha! I am a PGY-14…and girl, I don’t know either.
Seriously, that has always driven me crazy! Usually when I write the CBC, I leave off the hemoglobin.
According to the hematology lecture I am currently listening to (M2 path), “Most physicians order one or the other since one reflects the other.”
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In Canada, we hardly ever discuss/acknowledge the Hct. We raise our eyebrows in wonder at the American textbooks that seem obsessed with it but in our everyday work it is the Hb that matters. Why? No idea. Strange cultural differences, eh?
Surgery = Hct. Medicine = Hg.
Drop one and you’re certain to hack off 50% of your medical staff.
Sad but true…