They may generalize or specialize in areas such as the immune system bioengineering, cancer research, drug testing, biogenetics, industrial marketing and management, cell marker technology, or toxicology. Medical technologists work in hospitals, clinical laboratories, doctors' offices, research facilities, or industry.
Wages depend on the general technologist and the region of the country.
Hospitals and private clinical laboratories are the traditional employers of clinical laboratory professionals. Technologists in these settings perform laboratory tests to find the clues left by the disease. Their work is essential for diagnosis and treatment. University and industrial research laboratories employ clinical laboratory professionals to help find the solutions to many unanswered questions in medicine. Clinical laboratory professionals develop and test new methods that ultimately are used in hospital laboratories.