People can get involved in technical consulting. A medical technologist can be in sales. The medical technologist can help in training with instruments. There are medical technologists that help in the technical services or are sales reps for companies who manufacture laboratory instruments. Obviously there's been an increase in technology.
Computerization is big.
Now the big focus is on automation. It's a way of being involved in the healthcare team, in providing quality patient care. With laboratory medicine you're directly involved in providing information and data for the physician or the practitioner to use in making decisions on the monitoring of disease or on the treatment of the patient. We're that link that assists them in providing that quality care. I'm supposed to work a 40-hour week.