Thursday, July 08, 2021

The Dead Weather - Will There Be Enough Water? (United Record Pressing)

Doctors and nurses to researchers and lab techs

 I'd just like to ignore the massive point of this Rolling Stone article on Republican efforts to deny health care to people it doesn't like, and concentrate on its made-up hierarchy of medical providers, which puts "lab techs" last. 

We Clinical Laboratory Scientists are professionals too. Seventy percent of medical decisions are based on lab results. Without us and our expertise, doctors would be all, "Your pulse is thready and you have lung sounds, rales and rhonchi. You either have a sucking chest wound or a nickel allergy. Take two leeches and call me in the morning, if you're still breathing."


The provision allows anyone providing medical care — from doctors and nurses to researchers and lab techs – and anyone paying for that care (namely, insurance providers),



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