what does a medical technologist do
Amy Werner, MT (ASCP) What medical technologists do The medical technologist has the best of both worlds with the challenges and rewards of medicine and science.The medical technologist performs a full range of laboratory tests-from simple pre-marital blood tests, to more complex tests to uncover diseases such as AIDS, diabetes, and cancer. medical technologist who gains experience in one of the special areas of the laboratory has the opportunity to advance to a specialist level. In today's laboratories, areas of scientific exploration are the immune system, cell marker technology, bioengineering and cancer research.