First

Clinical Laboratory Week just finished with a bang. The main tool to contain the potential pandemic of swine flu is a lab test. Yet this minute in the limelight will probably be wasted again. We will again be too busy in the lab to take advantage of the attention and explain to the general public the enormous importance of the clinical laboratory and the need for knowledge and skills among the lab staff, from the phlebotomist to the director, as well as the value of the industry supporting it.