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Medical Laboratory Technician Reviews
What is it like working as a Medical Laboratory Technician?
July 2016
Laboratory Analysis is both intriguing and satisfying.
Medical Laboratory Technician:
Pros: Aplying clinical and technical knowledge alongside intelligent and dedicated coworkers within a professional, well kept, and fairly comprehensive facility with the objective of improving the health of fellow humans.
Cons: As an urgent care facility, priority tends to be on addressing the patients ' foremost health complaint with quality, but also as fast as possible, which at times has compromised the necessary and accurate data the lab is responsible to furnish.
May 2016
Most labs ate trying to streamline.
Medical Laboratory Technician:
Many labs are down sizing and sending the work to one area.
February 2016
Medical Laboratory Technician:
Pros: Getting to meet new people and help patients with their fear of needles.
Cons: Bodily fluids, little job satisfaction, difficult patients, biohazardous materials, loud machinery, little respect in the medical community.
November 2015
Employer Assessment.
Medical Laboratory Technician:
Pros: Relative (albeit marginal) autonomy.
Cons: 1) The state of understaffing (and rate of personnel turnover) in this hospital laboratory, making for perpetual job stress.
2) the burden of microbiology setups on second shift.
October 2015
Pay is increased about 5% more when working for Federal Gov.
Medical Laboratory Technician:
Head to the VA hospitals.
August 2015
Medical Laboratory Technician:
Pros: I love that I am helping. I find the job very rewarding and I'm always learning something.
Cons: Sometimes it can be tedious but that's ok.
August 2015
It's a good job.
Medical Laboratory Technician:
Pros: The importance, the skills required, the routine.
Cons: The stress and the pay, the fact that you're viewed as the least important part of the hospital even though you are essential for diagnosis and treatment, no respect from doctors or nurses.
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