Hurricane and lobotomy humor

Yeah, I know that Hurricane Katrina and lobotomy are not humorous subjects, but I couldn't help but chuckle when this reporter confused "phlebotomy" with "lobotomy". I contacted him just to be certain that it was a mistake, and of course it was.
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State's hospitality helps ease discomfort of leaving home

It came down to her job or her kids, Sakura Johnson said.

The job lost.

"I couldn't risk it. I wanted my kids to be safe," said Johnson of Slidell, La., who fled Hurricane Katrina with her family at noon Sunday and was camped out in Jackson's Mississippi Coliseum by 8 or 9 that night.

"For the record, I may be out of a job. I draw blood," she said Monday, as children merrily ran about the coliseum, pushing toy cars across the floor and people's feet.

"I was supposed to be on the job today. I work in the lab at West Jefferson Medical Center — in the lobotomy department. I may be an ex-lobotomist now."

Figuring the Marrero, La., hospital wasn't likely to offer emergency brain-lobe surgery today — "that would be crazy," she said — Johnson decided to flee her home in Slidell, about 32 miles northeast of New Orleans.

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