the field of medicine is a very vital importance for humanity, and must be free of egocentricity, monopoly and similar feelings and dogmatism, which in the long run is in a hostile and dangerous result is leaked a negative impact of the main beneficiaries – the patient. The fundamental goal of any health care system should, as is to the challenges of providing the best possible medical care to attend to pragmatic, efficient, competent, timely, and accurate, and inexpensive.
Consequently, the Medical Laboratory Science profession and try to re- position, rejuvenation and restructuring to meet its current curriculum and exceed where possible the current high standard of care is very important and almost almost indispensable when to modernize the country and hope to achieve the primary goals of medicine and health care professional and aspirations.
Without an iota of doubt, this noble profession as complex as humanity itself, and each approach them in the attempt, the best way to the field must clarify elevation definitely take note of this complexity and diversity. Medicine, as we know, has used a lot of development and today is a greater variety than in the 19 lakes and even the 20th Century. From a general perspective in conjunction with the medical profession as a whole, this laudable and very imperative area can fall roughly in Clinical and Laboratory with specialties such as diagnostic subdivided in the later, even if they do not directly connected while on the other hand and nursing home pharmacy may include falling into the clinical side of medicine.
The basic inclination, this brief summation is essentially related to What is the status quo hope that the medical and allied health professions in such a way modernization, that the medical laboratory technology to allow discipline to reach their full potential is not always the true foundation of modern medicine and its professionals due recognition given by the State? I want to vary my perspective, again by some of my colleagues, primarily as a result of training, my background, by omission or suck Commission in me the mentality of seeing my work in a noble and pragmatic point of view in terms of its usefulness, necessity and indispensability in the provision of a comprehensive health care.
therefore the demand for modernization of the profession is in no way, the blatant request for training as synonymous with the scope of the physician or pathologist but it is a call for the inclusion of curricula that enable the medical technician will be able to interpret professionally and legally, help in the diagnosis, treatment, management and prevention of a particular disease, without either the patient or the primary health care provider. This in turn increases the concern about why it is necessary for the field to determine the monopoly and should egocentrism within the complex multi-discipline will be pushed into the background and instead focus and the focus be on providing the best health care system.
I am very quick to point out that as a result of the emergence of varieties of complex scenarios, the simple explanation of the agent or agents in pathological states involved in cloud, the role of medical laboratory scientists have dramatically from that of primarily responds only to the health service, which now also include determination of accuracy, which is the accuracy and changed that at the same time, the best treatment and prevention the matter as required by the contemporary curriculum. Medical Laboratory Scientist is therefore to develop more independence in decision making and in some cases, have contributed enormously to the costs and waste as a result of their timely intervention, a fact that the generally accepted within the status quo, but never allowed to reduce publicity for the reason beyond imagination.
The modernization of the medical laboratory profession should be able to get an average graduate to be able to make comprehensive use of new curriculum to help in the interpretation , diagnosis and treatment recommendation of the condition (s) as it relates to the laboratory test (s). This may be my opinion, with the help of the adoption of a settlement of the course this may be similar to that of the Physician Assistance training, be achieved in terms of pragmatic understanding of the clinical impact of laboratory data, but with less emphasis on clinical and increasing tendencies to the laboratory Management of diseases and other diseases.
To reach the field of medical laboratory profession, and pragmatic goal, it into a specialty of the 21 Century has become the responsiveness is on primary healthcare providers and patients, it is no doubt that, doctors and pathologists of the so what are the best for the patient to a reality, rather than buy sentimental-is understandably in the idea . Based on the belief that the patient comes first, I think, the prevailing status quo and prepare themselves to aid in the field will be ready.
would like to take this opportunity to tell me briefly, but modest, an incident that happened during a flight from Frankfurt Germany to Washington Dulles Airport, where a passengers on board developed symptoms of acute fatigue and thirst leads to impotence. The flight attendance immediately announced that there is a medical emergency on board and to the intervention of medical staff. Without the credit for myself, I recognize, among other things, that the pulse rate and blood pressure was fine and dry mouth may be continued dehydration and / or anxiety. The passenger was on the floor with his head down slightly compared to the leg are in order, to allow greater blood flow to the brain. With the vital functions okay and the patient again have consciousness, that he gave me advice should be as much liquid as possible and in the absence of the pure D-glucose drink the juice on board was enough for this purpose. Fortunately, there was no need for fluid infusion and at the end of the day it is, everything went well.
After arriving in the U.S. I was later presented with an American Express coupon, plus a thank you letter from the medical director of the airline to the many gifts on board and appreciation. The above story is not to want anyone to thank me on, but rather as an example of how to know if it can also be used to save lives! I had an education background that recognize a greater extent, the significance of first aid and a part of primary health care system. I am not a doctor or physician, but a medical laboratory scientist whose professors recognize the fact that in the course of our training, we need to know how to handle some situations with no life and look at the same time the identity. Is it possible, therefore, medical laboratory scientists in a way that they can have the knowledge base train if necessary intervene in a medical situation to the extent that life can be preserved, as far as it depends on the knowledge?
It is an absolute need for the education of modern medical laboratory scientist in the way that enormous knowledge in the field of physiology, anatomy, biochemistry and Pharmacology and gives some basic clinical maneuvers in addition to the fundamental significance of diagnostic and / or laboratory tests. We all can not be a nurse, pharmacist, or genetics, but we can create a professional helping hand by supporting capable, in the broadest way, the bone of contention, and thus the practice of raising the interest of the patient and the system gives too large.
and large, no curricula, the provisional modernization that I may accommodate a minimum of three years of completion of medical laboratory technology program to ask participate hopes. During the three-year term, the applicants receive the necessary educational and professional training needed for his or her ability to deal with the most qualified midwife way, the laboratory results, the clinical interpretation of a laboratory management perspective and recommend if necessary, further testing improve (s) or removal of those already appointed.
two years, the correlation of clinical and laboratory studies related to the patient through the thorough study of the physiology, anatomy, pharmacology and biochemistry, pathology and be well spent. The last year of the study should be focused in a particular area of clinical laboratory discipline, namely, be a clinical biochemistry (chemical pathology), hematology, microbiology, immunology, coagulation studies, urinalysis and Instrumentation (Automation), Laboratory Information Service (LIS) , genetics, among others.
In a few words to the field of medical laboratory science to position itself better equip to deal with the challenges of the 21st dealing century medical and health concerns, there is an absolute need to upgrade or modernize this area of health care, which are very important and in some cases almost indispensable, as far as the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of disease concerned. The professionals who support the implementation of diagnostic tests to the results that need to use a specific or refute preliminary diagnosis and / or adequately and scientifically generate management, the conditions are treated with respect and be sued due place of honor involved are the Committee of the professions.
patients gain the most if we allow it can sacrifice our own selfish interest or desire for monopolistic tendency to the United States of America To move health care system is without equal in the world and through the once more the sort of leadership that awaits humanity in the country. As the saying goes necessity the mother of invention, and the medical laboratory profession in itself is a child of necessity, which allow it to grow, rather than to be isolated or marginalized to the detriment of patients.
Ours is the generation that pragmatic potential for change by the inauguration of the 44th President of the United States of America, President Barack Obama by some cynics experts have embodied, has closed will never happen in the country. The certificate of pragmatism, openness and a desire for concrete measures and solutions to the problems of the wicked nation, especially in a context of economic ills of the main reasons why the president’s opponents in the fourth November 2008 general elections have been beaten.
doctors, pharmacists, nurses and other allied health professionals could make history and changing the spectrum of the profession for the best if they are only willing , the search orchestrate the support of medical laboratory scientists in the arrangements, bringing a sustainable and lasting change and opportunities for advancement with the ultimate goal of a positive effect on the health system and delivery continues to reduce the cost of doing business.
It was never my dream to train as a doctor was through my efforts, embodied by the medical laboratory science profession during my undergraduate studies at the University of Calabar College of Medical Sciences track. However, I was within my professional and academic training to understand that I will be very useful and respected as a medical laboratory scientists do my job based primarily on discretion, performance and the potential to be a pragmatic positive difference. In the United States of America on the conviction seems to be a Fata Morgana, and therefore it can not be good enough for those who aspire to be like me.
we need to change that, since the later is not only inevitable, a life worth living without change, and I hope that somehow the health and its professionals can help the medical laboratory profession, the transition from its current status to what is to enable people to make better use of their work at full capacity, rather than the circumstances in which the work and tasks are more or less randomly in context, such as laboratory data distributed are generated and yet the generators have little or no input, as these results are therefore used to bring about the diagnosis, treatment and management of the conditions that the application be necessary in the first place could.
I am proud of who I am and am looking forward to achieving the highlight of my career, which may, on the basis of my mentors in the award a doctorate in the field of medical laboratory work culminating in addition to the ability to explore by touching lives and other tools that help bring about further veritable progress, innovation and discovery in health and medical profession is.
God bless the noble professionals in the field of health care, which remains their best with little or no recognition at all indispensable for their services, the miniaturized have have to give the production of laboratory data as to the true values and the capacity, the amen in this very noble profession, in abundance.
Mr. Odeh holds the licensing and certification as a medical technology in Nigeria and the United States of America practice. He is married to Helen and the couple has four children, Oga, Oronya, Olofu and Onoja.
He currently practices in Baltimore, Maryland, where he has lived since 2002.
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