Lab Rat or Button Monkey?

I have finally got some time to write a review for the Vitamin D podcast from  Clinical Chemistry. The interview isn’t too long and does not go into great technical depth but is a great listen and I certainly learned a few things from listening to it.  I knew that there are two different sources [...]

I have been given some dedicated time at work to work as a Training Officer. I am really looking forward to seeing what I can do with the time and how I can shape the training of people within the laboratory. Watch this space for developments…..

This is the presentation file I promised earlier.  I hope to write up some notes to accompany the presentation as there was extra detail in more talk that was absent from the slides.  I always feel that a presentation ends up boring if the talk is just someone reading slide content. presentation Note: The file [...]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/7525932.stm

The laboratory I work in has recently seen a very unusual potassium result. During the afternoon, one of our consultants came across a high potassium result, 13.4, that he suspected might be an EDTA contaminated sample.

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/91a88fe6-c92b-11db-9f7b-000b5df10621.html

I attended a lecture at University of Westminster dealing with micro array technology with regards to Chemical Pathology in 1999 or 2000. At the time it seemed very promising. The lecture was performed by an academic but the underlying technology implementation was from Roche. It seems that this approach was subsequently mothballed. At the time, [...]

The Christmas  drop in workload is well and truly over.  This week has been really busy.  No surprise that the workload has returned,  you just hope that it might be delayed for just a bit longer.  It didn’t help that the lamp on out high throughput analyser required changing in the afternoon.  A process that [...]

Working in a pathology department in the NHS, do you see yourself as a Lab Rat or a Button Monkey?