Legendforte:

thats why med bioc, med mcb graduates should also be allowed to fly nah. Is insecurity killing your people? Remember physicians actually created all these jobs in the 1st place for assistance and efficiency.

Unigrad:

Your believe wouldn't change anything.
Thank God alot of patients are aware of the important of medical Laboratory investigations before treatment. They don't agree to blind treatment.
Drugs resistance Nigeria and Nigerians are battling with now were mostly cause by the clinicians. Encouraging quarkery because of their selfish gain.
The only saving grace is that the clinicians dominated the political arena, other Medical professionals are getting involved now politically.

Legendforte:

lol u feel too insecure. I didnt say no testing. My point is that ur technical relevance will dimnish in the nearest future. Testing could ae done then right in gp surgeries, bedsides, ICU, et al by clinicians. The pathologist will have the prime role.

Unigrad:

You get mind to vomit this rubbish?
70% of Medical diagnosis is base on Medical Laboratory results. It's a world statistics. Stop displaying your ignorance in public.
Who told you MLS is inconsequential without pathologists and radiographers?

Legendforte:

lol u feel too insecure. I didnt say no testing. My point is that ur technical relevance will dimnish in the nearest future. Testing could ae done then right in gp surgeries, bedsides, ICU, et al by clinicians. The pathologist will have the prime role.

Unigrad:

Even in US and other developed countries, MLS are still relevant.
Keep on depending on POC, very soon, Medicolegal cases will start to catch some of you.
You think we don't know how you guys kill patients and you guys cover it up because patients relatives don't bother to investigate what happened to their relatives?.

Legendforte:
One love, one health, one goal, pls guys. No need for frivolities and squables. We are one family with a mission. Primum non nocerum

Unigrad:
You think MLS is restricted to Hospital and clinic jobs alone? I don't even work in a hospital but I have some other things I am doing as MLS. No form of insecurity at all.

Legendforte:

enough comrade, but physicians also have nonclinical settings as well.

Au79:

By discarded, I meant either its sent back to the lab or sent to another lab. It has to tally with the clinicians clinical suspicion.
How can u give me a pcv results of 14% in a patient with a cyonotic heart condition(TOF)with obvious conjuctiva plethora..or a result showing SS of a child whose parents are AA and SS ..these are some practical lab results we see often and you expect a clinician not to discard it cos its coming from a medlab scientist.?

I can't argue with you because you guys have encouraged all manner of persons to take over the lab, many persons are working in labs today, they are claiming MLS which they are not. When they give out wrong results, everyone put the blame on Medical Laboratory professionals.
I have given out results which the patients tred to argue it especially Genotype and Blood group, I usually tell them to go any facility of their choice to confirm, they usually come to tell me I was right. They argue because the results I gave them didn't agree with the ones that were given to them before, I don't know who they met earlier.
A qualified and trained Medical Laboratory Scientist don't just issue results anyhow, there are processes it must follow before issuing it out.
Well, always patronage a trained and qualified Medical Laboratory Scientist.
Note: No Medical professionals are excluded of errors but the errors made by a trained and qualified Medical professionals are minimal.

Au79:

By discarded, I meant either its sent back to the lab or sent to another lab. It has to tally with the clinicians clinical suspicion.
How can u give me a pcv results of 14% in a patient with a cyonotic heart condition(TOF)with obvious conjuctiva plethora..or a result showing SS of a child whose parents are AA and SS ..these are some practical lab results we see often and you expect a clinician not to discard it cos its coming from a medlab scientist.?
Of course lab scientist are not completely irrelevant but you should know ur position in the health sector.
At OP, i will advise u opt for either Pharmacy, medicine, nursing or physiotherapy ..medlab won't be worth it in the nearest future

LLiKYekoba:


Tell him to compare a fresh house officer in Nigeria with a US Nurse who is a DNP and tell us who is more clinically sound.

Au79:

No be only 70%. Things your lecturers tell u guys sha just to encourage you.
With Good medical history and detailed examination you 90% sure of the diagnosis..lab is just for confirmation. And that's why the clinicians reject your results if its to in line with his clinical suspicion ..
What is the relevance of a medlab scientists in the diagnosis of CVD(stroke), Migraine, autism spectrum disorder, ADHD, osteomylitis, most psychiatric disorders, volvulus, imperforate anus, omphalocele, gastroschisis,......infact almost all surgical diagnosis..
Most small to medium private hospitals don't even employ medlab scientists, not when technicians can do pretty fine..

Scholar212:
lol your hatred for MLS is just in plain sight here so you have a CVA patient and all you do is send for CT Scan, you won't request Baseline investigations? No FBC, Eucr, FSLP at least?. How do you rule out other suspected co-morbidities. Even your surgical diagnosis, anaethesist will not approve patient for the surgery without confirming the test results are okay. Medlab scientist are not your enemy, you can decide to employ a cleaner to run your own Hospital if you like but patients that know what they want will only patronize standard hospital with fully equipped laboratory manned by qualified scientists. Why don't Eko Hospital and the likes employ only technicians since they have highly skilled consultants and you don't need the scientists?. Thank God a lot of Nigerians both Doctors, nurses, scientists are migrating to UK and US. Go there and tell them you don't need to request for investigations for your diagnosis

Scholar212:
lol your hatred for MLS is just in plain sight here so you have a CVA patient and all you do is send for CT Scan, you won't request Baseline investigations? No FBC, Eucr, FSLP at least?. How do you rule out other suspected co-morbidities. Even your surgical diagnosis, anaethesist will not approve patient for the surgery without confirming the test results are okay. Medlab scientist are not your enemy, you can decide to employ a cleaner to run your own Hospital if you like but patients that know what they want will only patronize standard hospital with fully equipped laboratory manned by qualified scientists. Why don't Eko Hospital and the likes employ only technicians since they have highly skilled consultants and you don't need the scientists?. Thank God a lot of Nigerians both Doctors, nurses, scientists are migrating to UK and US. Go there and tell them you don't need to request for investigations for your diagnosis

Unigrad:

You know this your last statement can never happen.
You guys have made alot of attempts to put MLS under your control but you guys have not succeed and God will not allow you to succeed.
Alot of MLS in Nigeria are passing ASCPi certification exam in US and they are practicing in US as Medical Laboratory Scientist or Clinical Laboratory Scientist.
In UK, alot of MLS are there because they have being certified by HCPC. No exam is required because they know MLS standard in Nigeria is high.
Op, do your investigations before picking anyone. Don't allow one person to deceive you. Follow your passion.

rocoh:


I will like to know how a board certified medical laboratory technician in Nigeria can advance his /her career and can he or she immigrate with his qualifications.

Au79:

Those are ancillary investigations as far as those diseases I mentioned are concerned Mr lab scientist and not to establish the diagnosis.
How many Eko hospitals are there in Nigeria..More than 90% of hospitals in Nigeria are small and medium scaled. What's so difficult in carrying out eucr, fbc FBS, HbSag, mp, crossmatching, etc that a technician can't do. And these common investigations constitute the bulk of investigations required to successfully run a hospital..
You employed Medical Laboratory technician to carryout these medical Laboratory investigations?
Even eko hospital, how many lab scientist are there?

Unigrad:

Check ASCPi if you can write ASCPi for technicians.

MDGsVISIBLE:
You can also write ASCPi exams & become a certified Med Lab Scientist if you intend to work in US.
Note: Specific for USA only
But DE is a better option in Nigeria.
I wish you well Sir.

Au79:

Those are ancillary investigations as far as those diseases I mentioned are concerned Mr lab scientist and not to establish the diagnosis.
How many Eko hospitals are there in Nigeria..More than 90% of hospitals in Nigeria are small and medium scaled. What's so difficult in carrying out eucr, fbc FBS, HbSag, mp, crossmatching, etc that a technician can't do. And these common investigations constitute the bulk of investigations required to successfully run a hospital..
Even eko hospital, how many lab scientist are there?
Y'all keep referring to UK and US as standrad not knowing your technical irrelevance is even more pronounced there. Pathologist are demi-gods over there
Egbon your write up reeks of inferiority complex, always quick to think everybody hates your profession when we are just stating obvious facts

sampatdikachi:
The fight in the medical sector sha. I'm of the opinion that associate degrees should be allowed to enable Brethren from biological science programs enter into Med lab practice full time. During the pandemic, I remember how MLS guys trended hashtags for weeks on twitter wailing that there are being marginalized in the fight against Sars cov 2. The NCDC ignored their asses and employed graduates of Biotechnology, Biochemistry, Molecular biology, Molecular Microbiology, Virology to carryout Covid-19 tests . You can also checkout the degrees of graduates 54 gene employs as molecular scientists that carryout Covid-19 test in their mobile labs . Truth is some of our MLscientists aren't really grounded in Molecular diagnosis. It reminds me of when I had a written interview with some MLscientists from UNN for the role of Biomedical Scientist for a Molecular Pathology Lab in Enugu and they couldn’t explain explain the general protocol in DNA and RNA Isolation, and the basic PCR reaction principle. It was surprising to me, honestly.

Legendforte:
MBBS And DDS, DVM, PHARM.D, BNSc & BME are the fulcrum of health.
mls is inconsequential without the pathologists nd radiographers without the radiologists. Physioth is better. Optometry is mangeable.

Unigrad:

Medicolegal cases are coming, people are getting wiser, be encouraging blind treatment all in the name of ego, you said poc? POC or technological advancement can't never rule out the important of trained and qualified MLS. You don't know what you are doing if you rely on results from POC.
Are you indirectly saying Robotic and nano medicine is coming to take up the jobs of clinicians?
The sky is too big for two birds to crash. Stop fighting a lost battle.

Saibits:


Omo so you sat down comfortably and decided to type and post this utter nonsense, just because you're not a professional you're being bitter to allied health PROFESSIONALS, nor be Dem tell you to do plain old insignificant biochemistry, carry your tears somewhere else bro