The job: Medical laboratory technologist
The role: From throat swabs to cancer screens, blood tests to DNA tests, Canadians generate over 440 million medical test results a year, which are conducted by medical laboratory technologists (MLTs).
“We would have been there the day you were born to test you for certain disorders as a baby, and you would have never known,” says Christine Nielsen, the chief executive officer of the Canadian Society for Medical Laboratory Science in Hamilton . “As a healthy adult, when your doctor sends you off for lab tests and just wants to see what your glucose [level] is, your specimen goes through our people.”
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National Microbiology Lab technician, Lillian Mendoza, processes patient samples for the measles
virus and genotyping in Winnipeg Manitoba, February 19, 2015.
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Source: theglobeandmail
