Behind Closed Doors: the value of medical laboratory professionals in Canada

摘要

What would health care be like without labs? The Canadian Society for Medical Laboratory Science's national public awareness campaign: 'Our Focus is You' challenges the public to imagine a health care system without medical labs and medical laboratory professionals. The campaign's website, www.ourfocusisyou.ca illuminates some rather sobering statistics. Visitors learn that without labs, in one day 487 new cases of cancer would not be diagnosed, 2,000 units of blood required to treat trauma and surgical patients would not be available, and 192 heart attacks would go unidentified.