Talk:Medical laboratory

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Staff
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)

SmithKlein Beecham Settlement
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)

Smith Kline Beecham Settlement
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)Axelarater

Reference 2, about the Scam, is broken. Lave (talk) 19:39, 2 September 2011 (UTC)

It has been a year and there is still no correct citation (and I even tried to find evidence) for this "scandal". I am going to remove this section, if someone finds something it can be reverted but as it stands I don't see a reason to keep it. Not to mention this sort of information belongs in the GSK article not a general med lab article. Axelarater (talk) 16:49, 10 September 2011 (UTC)Axelarater

Dubious Hierarchy
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)

Especially since the professions in question may have nothing to do with one another besides being under the medical laboratory umbrella. For instance a PATH A doesn't really do work contiguous with medical lab scientists. Its like saying an physical therapist has authority over an occupational therapist just because the PT has a higher degree. I'd say in terms of compensation however; this list is fairly accurate in my location.

I have removed the unpopular "hierarchy" since it is largely nonexistent, especially in labs that I have seen. I did however leave the professions in list form. I have also separated the managerial staff from the bench staff. AxelaraterAxelarater (talk) 23:44, 3 January 2012 (UTC)

Dubious Hierarchy
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)

Info about the ISO 15195..... and further

 * 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

--222.64.22.162 (talk) 02:15, 2 April 2010 (UTC)
 * http://www.iso.org/iso/products/standards/catalogue_ics_browse.htm?ICS1=11&ICS2=100&ICS3=01&

--222.64.22.162 (talk) 01:55, 2 April 2010 (UTC)
 * http://www.iso.org/iso/iso_catalogue/catalogue_tc/catalogue_detail.htm?csnumber=38363

--222.64.22.162 (talk) 01:58, 2 April 2010 (UTC)
 * http://www.iso.org/iso/products/standards/catalogue_ics_browse.htm?ICS1=11&ICS2=100&ICS3=99&

--222.64.22.162 (talk) 02:06, 2 April 2010 (UTC)
 * http://scholar.google.com.au/scholar?hl=en&q=allintitle%3A+ISO+22870&btnG=Search&as_sdt=2000&as_ylo=&as_vis=0

--222.64.22.162 (talk) 02:07, 2 April 2010 (UTC)
 * http://scholar.google.com.au/scholar?hl=en&q=allintitle%3A+ISO+7713&btnG=Search&as_sdt=2000&as_ylo=&as_vis=0

--222.64.22.162 (talk) 02:10, 2 April 2010 (UTC)
 * http://scholar.google.com.au/scholar?hl=en&q=allintitle%3A+ISO+15190&btnG=Search&as_sdt=2000&as_ylo=&as_vis=0

--222.64.22.162 (talk) 02:12, 2 April 2010 (UTC)
 * http://scholar.google.com.au/scholar?hl=en&q=allintitle%3A+ISO+12772&btnG=Search&as_sdt=2000&as_ylo=&as_vis=0

History of Laboratory medicine?
How about a summary of the history of laboratory medicine?

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Lab Staff and Pathologist
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: "Pathologist; [Dcls: doctor medical laboratory science: Usa] [mls.d : africa], [Dmls:asia] [Dkgl :Germany] and ..."

I'll change it to something like: "Pathologist (DCLS Doctor Clinical/Medical Laboratory Science in US)" 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)

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