| Show Hospital Laboratory Improves Medical Care The modern hospital laboratory is the key to improved medical care which doctors are able to otter offer their patients Without the accurate di diagnosis diagnosis diagnosis di- di made possible by the skill of laboratory technicians doctors would in many cases be helpless to prescribe proper treatment Primarily the medical laboratory is merely a tool which the doctor may use in determining the nature of ot his patients' patients illnesses In the thel l large rge majority of ot cases the doctor Is able to diagnose disease without resorting to the more complicated and technical test which are the function of the laboratory but incases in m incases cases cases where the exact nature of the disease is not known it may be necessary to perform many physIcal physical phys ical and chemical tests which the doctor could not well carry out him self The pathologist Is a doctor who specializes in the diagnosis of disease dis' dis ease In a typical case a general practitioner may have n a patient with a small tumor which he suspects suspects sus may be a beginning cancer The physician will then remove a small sample of the suspected tissue tissue sue and send it to the pathologist who will examine it carefully under the microscope and may perform certain chemical tests And if it the pathologist reports that the tissue sample does indeed contain cancer cells the physician must recommend recommend recommend mend an operation for tor cancer |
