"A stick has always been viewed as a rite of passage, a battle scar, a point of pride -- as in. I've been stuck six times and never been infected."

"Had AIDS not happened onto the scene, little or nothing would have been made of the ... ongoing risks ... to the health care workers."

"Here [San Francisco General] was the premier AIDS center in the world, and there was such resistance -- they just kept downplaying the risk to health care workers [to draw blood without needles fit with safety functionality." ]

“Explain the procedure to patients to gain their cooperation and avoid potential movement during the procedure”

“Most people don't have a clue of the complexities involved for the person drawing blood.”
“Safety needles, when used properly … in conjunction with safe behaviors … needlesticks [can] be reduced to their lowest possible level. “

Peer comment directed to Dennis Ernst regarding his writing on the possible errors in the process of blood collection process in BNET Medical Laboratory Observer, “Never Too Safe”, Nov. 2006

“We must all recognize that our mission is to educate and then monitor for compliance in following the rules and protocols for safe phlebotomy. I would like to remind the author of the importance of promoting only safety-engineered products. There are two photographs of needles on pages 30 and 34 with no safety-engineered guard in sight. We must not promote the concept that it is okay to use non-safe products--this is unthinkable!”

“With VeinViewer, patients never need to feel like human pincushions again.”

"The real and immediate risk of exposure to health care facilities includes days away from work, medical evaluation and follow up, counseling, emotional distress, side effects from drug prophylaxis, decreased staffing and workers' compensation costs, to name a few.