Talk:Medical laboratory

message: I am looking at this staff list and I see that someone who is ignorant to position titles in their corresponding credentials changed "Medical Laboratory Scientist" to "Medical Laboratory Technologist (MLT)" MLT does not stand for medical technologist, it stands for technician. These titles have a rather large educational differences. I am going to change it Medical Laboratory Scientist (MLS) and Biomedical Scientist. Axelarater (talk) 02:54, 30 January 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Staff

message: There is an Aug 2009 neutrality challenge referenced in the article, but I don't see any active discussion.  I see no reason to have this paragraph in this article.  The claims regarding the economics of generic hospital labs are totally unsubstantiated, i.e. before the SKB "scandal", labs were profit centers, since then they are economic losses.  Compliance officers were not a response to this specific scandal, as they were around before this.  This paragraph could be re-written to be about billing or economics in general, but I don't think it would add much to the page.  I think it should be removed altogether, or if someone wants to make a SKBL lawsuit and settlement page this could be moved there.  It should be noted that the economics of the clinical lab is very country-specific.173.8.220.209 (talk) 20:25, 10 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: SmithKlein Beecham Settlement

message: Agreed. Not only is this unsubstantiated, the citation provided is a dead link. This section should be removed until a good citation can be found. Axelarater (talk) 17:22, 11 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Smith Kline Beecham Settlement

message: The following paragraph appears in the article
The following is the hierarchy of the clinical laboratory staff from highest authority to lowest: Pathologist, Clinical Biologist, Microbiologist, Biochemist, pathologist assistant, Microbiologist assistant, Medical Biochemist assistant, laboratory manager, department supervisor, chief technologist (lead technologist), cytotechnologist, medical technologist, histotechnologist, medical laboratory technician, medical laboratory assistant (lab aide), phlebotomist, transcriptionist, and specimen processor (secretary).
It is kind of silly to have such a precisely ordered chain of being for each and every role in the lab, and while there is some relevant progression, some of the distinctions are quite arbitrary. I want some sort of citation to support this please -- 202.124.109.172 (talk) 05:40, 28 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Dubious Hierarchy

message: Agreed. In clinical labs (in Ireland
and U.K. anyway) this higherarchy as outlined above does not exist. Specailists in each department of the lab of equal experience and qualifications are viewed as equals i.e. a biochemist and a haemotoligist. a phlebotomist is rarley in the lab and could be excluded from this list as could the specimin processor and transcriptionist. some of the terms used are interchangable i.e. cytologist/histologgits.
Also in Ireland and the UK a "Medical Technologist" is known as "Medical Scientist" or less commonly as a "Clinical Laborotory Scientist". Lab technicians (non scientists with 1 or two years training) do not preform clinical diagnostic work here. their duties include. making dilutions of stock reagents, preparing electrophoresis gels, maintaining equipment, cleaning, monitoring lab stock (pipette tips, chemicals, gloves)ordering more as neccesery.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.198.229.90 (talk) 10:50, 30 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Dubious Hierarchy

message: * http://scholar.google.com.au/scholar?as_q=ISO+15195&num=10&btnG=Search+Scholar&as_epq=&as_oq=&as_eq=&as_occt=title&as_sauthors=&as_publication=&as_ylo=&as_yhi=&as_sdt=1.&as_sdtp=on&as_sdts=5&hl=en
* http://www.iso.org/iso/products/standards/catalogue_ics_browse.htm?ICS1=11&ICS2=100&ICS3=01&
--222.64.22.162 (talk) 02:15, 2 April 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Info about the ISO 15195..... and further 

message: How about a summary of the history of laboratory medicine?
CrocodilesAreForWimps (talk) 17:37, 4 November 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  History of Laboratory medicine? 

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thread_title: Wiki Education assignment: ENGL 101 English Composition

message: The info following the pathologist is way out of format. I don't fully know all the correct abbreatiions, but some one who does, please fix what can. As it stands, I'm going to bring the formatting and capitalization to something more akin to the rest; but any specail capitaiziton is byond my scope of knowladge.
For reference, this is how it is currently written: 
I'll change it to something like:
since that is the only one I have even the most basic clue on. 207.165.224.99 (talk) 16:18, 6 April 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lab Staff and Pathologist 

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thread_title: Wiki Education assignment: First Year English Composition 1001

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