Twas the week before Christmas and all through the lab

not an analyser was stirring, ten winks I did grab.

When then from my call phone there arose such a clatter,

I sprang from my bench to see what was matter!

An elderly gentleman with a swollen red leg

complained of some chest pain, my help he did beg.

He looked out of puff with a large round belly

that shook when he coughed like a bowl full of jelly.

“Help me! Oh help me! For oft I have flew,

Long haul and cramped, my leg it did grew.

Out on manoeuvres preparing for flight,

Exercising reindeer for an important night.”

“Quickly!” I shouted, “let there be no delay!”

This man needs an urgent CTPA.

A clot we did find, in a segmental artery,

Dear readers, what shall our therapy’s start be?

TeamHaem apologises unreservedly to Clement Clarke Moore!

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