How does it make laboratory professionals feel when no one really knows what we do? Our career—the profession we chose for a living—where we spend most of our time? When all that we do for patient care, and our accomplishments every day, go unnoticed by the general public? How unsettling is it when very few grasp and understand the importance and significance of who we are? As practitioners in laboratory medicine, how often have we heard these questions?
Do we really know how to respond? “I work in the laboratory” is not at all a sufficient response. It does not take into consideration the education, technical skills, body of knowledge, scope of practice, or…
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Submitted by:
Angela Tomei Robinson
Medical Laboratory Scientist
New York, USA
