Lab Impact Story

The lab made a major difference in my care

April 28, 2016

Lab Impact Stories, Stories From The Front Line of the Labs

Portia thought she was just having bad indigestion, but the laboratory was able to identify that Portia was having a mild heart attack. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qk-_7yT2ScE Click Here to watch other ...

Negative can be good!

Alexia Hansen

April 27, 2016

Lab Impact Stories

Alexia Hansen, Laboratory Manager from Minnesota, tells her personal story of how the laboratory gave her peace of mind while her twin boys were in the NICU after she suffered a placental abruption. https://ww...

“Lab Testing Matters Because It Saved My Husband’s Life”

Monica Cuthbert

April 26, 2016

Lab Impact Stories, Uncategorized

Monica Cuthbert a Clinical Laboratory Scientist from California tells her personal story of why laboratory testing matters. While obtaining samples to test a new hematology analyzer, she discovered her husband’...

This Lab Week, Share YOUR Story.

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April 24, 2016

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3RFncDAJe-4 This Lab Week, We are looking for laboratorians, doctors, patients and anyone who has been impacted by laboratory medicine to tell us their story. Your story co...

When the Lab is Part of the Healthcare Team, Lives are Saved.

Mario Casupanan, MT

April 12, 2016

Lab Impact Stories

I’ve worked in the lab profession for 37 years, but I’ll never forget July 22, 1995, a day my wife, Helen, and I had joyously anticipated. After having four boys, and 15 years after the birth of youngest who ar...

A career that makes a difference

Debbie Bishop, BS, MT (ASCP)

March 8, 2016

Lab Impact Stories

I graduated from the University of Southern Mississippi in 1978 with a degree in Medical Technology. I have worked at several hospitals in my long laboratory career, but the 26 years I have worked in Collins h...

Helping Make the Diagnosis

Linda Papik, BA, MT (ASCP)

January 7, 2016

Lab Impact Stories, Stories From The Front Line of the Labs

Our practice is dedicated to helping people with rheumatoid arthritis (RA), osteoporosis, autoimmune diseases and other musculoskeletal conditions. We perform over 150,000 lab tests annually in Chemistry, Urin...

Saved By the Lab

Carol Rosendahl

December 15, 2015

Lab Impact Stories

I am the supervisor of a moderately complex lab in a busy physicians’ office. We work closely with patients and get to know them on a personal level. One of our avenues of patient care is providing POC- INR t...

Laboratorians: Healthcare’s Detectives

Linda Gomez, MT

December 3, 2015

Lab Impact Stories, Stories From The Front Line of the Labs

You don’t often see things out of the ordinary as a laboratorian, but every once in a while you encounter something unusual, and where you can really make a difference. Some years ago, I was working in Hemat...

Stories from the Front Lines of the Laboratory: Keeping our Children Healthy

Patty Hopkins, MT, MLS

November 5, 2015

Lab Impact Stories, Stories From The Front Line of the Labs

Name: Patty Hopkins, MT, MLS Title: Laboratory Director Employer: The Pediatric Center LLC, Thomasville, GA We are a moderate complexity lab which supports six pediatricians, a nurse practitioner and a phy...

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