Lorna

I am the temple of the living God

Or you leave with top tier line setting skills

@sherrykokoo @jnrjust_ice No, we get a lot of feedback from relatives that the lab said "they can't find the samples that they brought".

@_Biig_L @jnrjust_ice You mean that’s the reason why we ask for fresh samples?

😂😂you know how HOs dey take sample? As for some things i don’t want hear. Sample taking? Herh please paa. You go take sample go sef make them loss am then you for go take am again😂😂

Chale in all this back and forth let’s be measured. Enough of the insults. Stick to the facts.

@MzInterkudzi #PutLPsBackintheLab

Anyway, I don't want stress plus I want my peace of mind so they will do their own marrow biopsies and report it. After all they claim it is all in their scope and physicians have no place in the lab

The same is true for alcohol...

JUST IN: 🇺🇸 Major US study finds marijuana use is damaging brain development in teenagers.

The issues on the ground are about collaboration and not leadership, otherwise why have lab physicians been refused access to laboratory benches to just work and learn??? Let's stop the misinformation please. #PutLPsBackintheLab

@sherrykokoo @jnrjust_ice Standard wai

@jnrjust_ice Did you say “loss am for you to take again”? Ei

Lmao sure, because the clinical coordinators don't need to ensure that resources are administered appropriately to all units in a health facility to help optimize patient care. Let's use all the money in the lab and forget about cleaning materials, gloves, oxygen, etc

The acting head currently is the director of medical affairs, who is a paediatrician. The change is temporary and to allow the laboratory physicians to work in the lab without fear of being physically kicked out by the lab scientists, which unfortunately has happened before.

@Angeley_ Loooool Jemima, why????

I have soooo many questions

Stop ok? How much commission is worth putting our reputations on the line? If you don't understand the argument I can respect that but sharing lies is where one must draw the line. Please do better.🙏🏾

Why would a profession who helped create yours steal your spot? As per how?

A time will come when they'll be searching for a hematologist to treat a blood-related cancer or a pathologist to diagnose an abnormal growth, and they'll not find one because a group of people decided to keep these physicians out of their working and training space.

Honestly, I would have preferred a different way of handling this. A strike over laboratory access feels like an overreach, especially in a national referral hospital where any disruption immediately affects patients. But the strike is not the real story. The real story is how we got here. Is this a leadership battle, or a territorial battle? If you believe the laboratory should be reserved only for medical laboratory scientists, that is not consistent with how modern diagnostic systems work. If you also believe the laboratory must be led only by laboratory physicians, that is equally incomplete. Those are the two extremes. A serious health system should be able to find a workable middle ground between them. —- The reason this conflict feels so intense is that the laboratory is the center of modern diagnosis. It determines cancer diagnoses, antimicrobial choices, transfusion safety, and clinical decision-making. That is why leading teaching hospitals treat laboratories as diagnostic systems rather than professional territories. ——- Medical laboratory scientists protect the technical reliability of results. They manage testing systems, sample processing, quality control, method validation, instrumentation, accreditation, and workflow. Their core question is: Is this result accurate and reliable? If a test is technically unreliable at Korle Bu, the mere presence of laboratory physicians will not automatically correct that failure. That is why this debate should not be reduced to a vague claim about “validating results.” —- I have also noticed that a few people don't seem to understand what laboratory medicine is about. Laboratory medicine is a well-established specialty. (The history of infectious diseases is one of my favorite topics) Laboratory physicians bring a different function. They connect laboratory findings to diagnosis, specialist reporting, treatment decisions, and complex patient care. Ghana’s own specialist training pathway recognizes laboratory medicine in anatomic pathology, chemical pathology, hematology, and medical microbiology. Their core question is: What does this result mean for the patient? ——- The term “validation” must be separated into at least two levels. Medical laboratory scientists confirm that the sample is acceptable, the instrument worked, quality control passed, and the result is analytically sound. In other words, “Technical Validation.” Laboratory medicine physicians provide clinical validation for a select # of specialist cases. It is worth noting that not every result needs a laboratory physician's sign-out/validation. Most are released through technical validation and approved procedures/protocols. But some tests are different. For example; A biopsy can diagnose cancer. A bone marrow report can diagnose leukemia. Genomic results can shape major clinical decisions. These sometimes require clinical correlation. In most established systems, this is mostly done by laboratory physicians —- If this dispute is mainly about who leads the laboratory, then a better model would be structured co-leadership. A laboratory physician can lead the clinical domain. A medical laboratory scientist should lead the technical and operational/administrative domain. This is what is done in major hospital labs. Then again, I hope this is not merely about “who heads the lab.” And I will be more disappointed if it's also about “ACCESS” —— Healthcare should be organized for patient outcomes and higher standards of care. We can achieve that only through collaboration. Not competing for professional dominance. —- In Johns Hopkins & other major hospitals, laboratory services sit within departments of pathology and laboratory medicine. They have a medical director (usually a laboratory physician/pathologist) and an administrative director (usually a medical laboratory scientist) ——- But what do you think the real issue is? I would love to hear from both sides

Another reason for the words that appear after historically here is that it makes moot the points that LPs are not solving any problem or doing anything or that LP training was started because of greed…

I did Biomedical science and one day I’ll also tell you guys how I used to see doctors and how my views about medicine have really changed after doing GEMP. There’re PAs, pharmacists and other healthcare professionals in my class who have similar stories as well 😹😹😹

True, I’ve had a dietitian and 2 PAs tell me they didn’t realise how much they didn’t know until they started GEMP. I think GEMP students know firsthand how the Dunning Kruger effect shapes our perception of the world and others.

The whole issue is funny because historically, medical doctors actually started training medical lab scientists in 🇬🇭