Disappointing that the one solution he fails to mention is, ask someone who DOES know something about laboratory medicine. As Mike Lapasota has pointed out many times, when physicians are asked what they do when they don't understand something about a laboratory test, their most common responses are either "Google it" or "Ask a colleague." "Call the laboratory and talk to the director" hardly even makes the list of responses.
Cheers,
Roger
Roger L. Bertholf, PhD
Medical Director of Clinical Chemistry
Houston Methodist Hospital
Professor of Clinical Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Weill Cornell Medicine
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What we have been teaching for years but it is nice to see in such an influential paper.
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