Talk:Medical laboratory scientist

message: In the UK, 'clinical scientist' is something a bit different. It would be nice if this article wasn't so biased towards the US. In the UK, a clinical scientist interprets the data, interacts with patients, and has clinical consultancy training (taking the same exams as the MD for the Royal College of Pathologists) -- what's described here would be a 'biomedical scientist' in the UK.
I'm thinking of perhaps making a page for the UK version of the clinical scientist. Or could this be intercalated with this article?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.194.159.136 (talk) 22:07, 23 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Very American

message: There is a general need for cleanup on this article. As it stands right now it needs heavy reorganization to make the information flow more coherantly. This includes changing headings and moving information around. The intro is needs to be rewritten to remove POV material and make it a proper summary of the article. The article seems to contain link spam as the list of links at the bottom seems overly large and has no descriptions as to what they refer to or why they aresignificant. Article also needs sourcing. Would someone with some background give it a look over?  Is Medical Technologist a general term for this type of health professional?  Is it only used by one health care company?  Some clarification on this would help. --Lendorien 14:34, 6 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Working on clean up: Removed "Laboratory results are 80% of a doctor's diagnosis." replaced with "Laboratory results aid clinical practitioners in confirming or ruling out diagnoses, chronic disease changes, and effects of medical therapies."BloodGuru (talk) 23:43, 13 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Cleanup needed

message: Someone needs to go through the list of links. It's gotten long and I'm certain most of it is linkspam. --Lendorien 22:21, 27 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Linkspam

message: In the "see also" section, those articles should link to med tech from their "see also" sections in order to increase traffic to this article  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ozmaweezer (talk • contribs) 13:56, August 28, 2007 (UTC) 
Sorted, Removed vendor links:
*Abbott Laboratories
*Bayer
*Beckman Coulter
*Biomerieux
*GlaxoSmithKline
*Olympus Corporation
*Quest Diagnostics
*Sysmex
Stevecalloway 13:38, 6 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  internal links from other pages to med tech for increased traffic to med tech 

message: 1)  Check out the 10/18/2006 05:17 (last) version in the history tab.  It is obviously not neutral point of view (NPOV) and it is not exactly "encyclopedic in nature," but it has a lot of good ideas for the article.  Here is a link to that page:
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Medical_technologist&diff=82152964&oldid=82124399
2)  The article needs some images like RN, vacutainer, some automated analyzers, laboratory centrifuge, etc.
3)  If you visit the biomedical scientist article, pathologist, blood bank, or micro they have boxes of information and links at the bottom of their pages.  Shouldn't med tech be included in there somewhere?  Shouldn't the box appear at the bottom of the med tech page?  Are these boxes called templates?
4)  As far as giving the article a world view, I don't have any input on that because I only work in the USA.  Someone from England needs to do that I guess.  Or merge the article with the Biomedical Scientist article if that's an English Med tech.Ozmaweezer 12:29, 15 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Deleted and reworked the last paragraph, it was too conversational and biased, e.g. embarrassing money. As far as the baby-boomer thing, it's true there will be a shortage; but you're correct in saying that will not necessarily translate to higher wages.  Many laboratory tests like routine chemistry are getting more automated.  I'll have to dig up some data on these theories...BloodGuru (talk) 17:30, 14 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Med tech article suggestions

message: It is my understanding that they expect MT's to be able to practice phlebotomy work, I do not know how that has changed since AIDS became an issue, or if that had an impact on students choosing MT as a major. Comments?
71.127.23.22 (talk)  —Preceding undated comment was added at 23:45, 16 August 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: All human tissue/fluid samples are to be treated with universal precautions.  In other words, whether a blood sample may contain HCV, HIV, or no infectious agent, they are all treated AS INFECTIOUS.  The only way to maintain safety is to simply assume that all samples pose the same risk of infection whether they actually do or not.BloodGuru (talk) 17:16, 14 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Phlebotomy Duties Expected of Medical Technologists?

message: Most Medical Laboratory Scientist are generalists, skilled in all areas of the clinical laboratory. This is not a true statement. Almost all MT's that work in hospitals of fair size (serving a population of ~30,000) are resigned into one to three specialties. Generalists only exist in very, very low traffic hospitals, clinics, or most commonly research laboratories. 76.232.3.23 (talk) 09:18, 23 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Generalists 

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message: A MLT in the United States is NOT the same as a medical lab scientist. The MLT has an associate's degree, not a B.S. and cannot by CLIA regulations run all tests in the clinical lab, especially in blood bank and microbiology.  This article uses the designation MLT interchangeably with MLS and it's just not correct. This needs to be changed.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.252.183.253 (talk) 00:23, 22 October 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Medical Laboratory Technician is NOT a Medical Laboratory Scientist 

message: The article Medical technologist seems to be a duplicate of this article. I'm proposing that it be merged into Medical laboratory scientist as this article is higher quality.  I've opened a merge proposal on the Medical laboratory scientist talkpage. SpicyMilkBoy (talk) 21:58, 12 June 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: Support having these as two pages is confusing, at the least. Waughd (talk) 22:47, 12 June 2019 (UTC)
replies: text:  Merged SpicyMilkBoy (talk) 11:34, 28 June 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merger proposal