Today’s Blog is again a combination of quotes and thoughts:
“In a quarter million clinical laboratories in the United States alone, techs work every day with little visibility or recognition. During the Covid pandemic, they risked exposure and worked extensive overtime running tests to produce accurate, timely results for patients. At all times, they must learn ever-changing technology while managing family life around a demanding job.”
“This book chronicles the unseen work of laboratory technicians, technologists, and aides through interviews and the author’s experience working in a clinical lab for more than 40 years, a time that saw astounding changes in lab technology, methodology, and testing. Most importantly, this book provides the human story of patients, diseases, and conditions diagnosed and monitored through lab work.”
- Nyla Jo Hubbard, Inside Laboratory Medicine: A Memoir of Healthcare Behind the Scenes, McFarland & Company, 2024. From the back cover.
My Quaker group had this book – which I really enjoyed reading and learning from. Also picked up the following quote with information about Doctors Without Borders. [p 125] On their website MSF describes itself as:
“An international, independent medical humanitarian organization Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) translates to Doctors Without Borders. We provide medical assistance to people affected by conflict, epidemics, disasters, or exclusion from healthcare. Our teams are made up of tens of thousands of health professionals, logistic and administrative staff—bound together by our charter. Our actions are guided by medical ethics and the principles of impartiality, independence and neutrality. We are a non-profit, self-governed, member-based organization.
MSF was founded in 1971 in Paris by a group of journalists and doctors. Today, we are a worldwide movement of nearly 63,000 people” (MSF, 2023), p 125.
Nyla Jo Hubbard writes of her volunteer work for Doctors Without Borders. Quite interesting with trials and tribulations.
Thank You for reading, JoAnn Lordahl
[My apologies: Reading, Writing currently consumes most of my dwindling energy.]
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