To get noticed in the laboratory world, do something
really, really well, but rememberyou have to compete
with the front line soldiers such as doctors, nurses
etc. Or do something slightly wrong and just sit back
and wait for the media attention,
--- Ian Bailey <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
> Finlay
> Who wrote the article?
>
> Putting my BMA hat on, answer is be prepared to talk
> to media about what ever
> they want to discuss - making sure "no comment" when
> that applies.
>
> I spent a lot of time talking to media last
> June/July, on two major topics
> Physician Assisted Suicide, and Abortion Limits. It
> was interesting when we
> got to and you are "a pathologist" - leaving me to
> explain exactly where my
> practice fits in! Hence my disappointment The Mail
> did not use its known
> contacts!
>
> Of course not everything you want said will get
> published - Journalists must
> write to sell papers.
>
> Ian
>
> Dr Ian R Bailey
> Consultant Chemical Pathologist, Bromley Hospitals
> NHS Trust,UK
> email: [log in to unmask]
> Tel: 01689 864281
> Chair London South RCSC
> Member CCSC
> CCSC representative on
> BMA Health Informatics Management
> Committee
> Public Affairs Secretary, Bromley Division
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Clinical biochemistry discussion list
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf
> Of Finlay MacKenzie
> Sent: 28 March 2006 15:38
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Invisible lab-staff
>
> The Daily Mail was open in our T-room (you don't
> think I read it, do
> you?) at the centre pages. The story centres on the
> 17 different hospital
> staff groups involved in the treatment of a baby.
> Surprise, surprise, no
> mention of the lab staff, though the ubiquitous
> 'blood tests' were mentioned
> in para 48, just before the end and a
> Histopathologist did get a look-in a
> few inches above.
> Seriously, are we that invisible? What can be done
> to raise the profile of
> our profession?
> Finlay
> Finlay MacKenzie
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