I support suggestion of a wider membership for the A.C.B. MLSO would
benefit from the scientific input and would no doubt contribute
considerably as well, as evidenced by some of the posters submitted by
MLSO colleagues to ACB meetings. It has always seemed unnecessarily
elitist to exclude MLSO from a group dedicated to the common interest of
scientific clinical bicohemistry, when I and most of the colleagues that
I know happily include them and value their contribution to the
scientific aspects of their work in the laboratory.
As far as the trade union aspects are concerned, I leave the arcane
arguments to my learned colleague, Professor Forrest, but just comment
that I have been made uncomfortable by the anomalous position of being a
medic in a trade union for Biochemists. I fully support and have
benefitted from the scientific and education activities of the ACB but
have felt it odd that I am included in trade union, even though I never
use it as such, which does not represent my particulr interests.
--
Trevor Gray
Department of Clinical Chemistry
Northern General Hospital
Sheffield
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