"Ariana in Gibsonton, Florida"
You are an idiot. As a Medical Technologist, I not only deal with all of your patient's results, I deal with with every other RN's patient's results along with the ER and outpatient results as well. On top of that everyone wants the results for their patient immediately as if they are the only person that the lab is dealing with. Yes, analyzers in the lab involve some button pushing but so does some of the equipment you use. Are you just a button pusher? I respect the work that the RNs do. The respect should be mutual. Spend a week in each department of a large hospital lab with at least a level II trauma center and you will be glad that you only have to deal with a few patients. Let's find out if you could differentiate each cell line under a microscope and at what stages they are at and each stage of disease for every type of cell. Let's find out if you could identify every reason why chemistry results are valid or not valid and all the possible things that can effect the result of each analyte. Let's find out if you could identify each kind of clinically significant bacteria knowing which to continue to work up and which to ignore. Lets see if you could identify multiple antibodies in a patient who has received multiple transfusions in the rapid time it takes to issue blood when someone needs it. Identify patient incompatibility issues and transfusion reaction work-ups. Let's see if you could identify each abnormality that can be found in a urine specimen microscopically. What are all of the possible items that can be found and why should they be reported or not reported under that microscope including different casts, fungi, cells including renal, transitional, epithelial. Can you spot the trichinosis? Well you better because they are clinically significant, hard to find and may or may not be present. Oh and the best part of all of this is doing all of these things on 100's of patients from the ER, surgery, and yours.
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