NATURE OF HEALTHCARE AND THE PLACE OF THE LABORATORY TECHNICIAN AS A HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONAL IN THE MEDICAL DIAGNOSTIC LABORATORY

Healthcare is a kind of service including medical care for patients and it is a general medical approach to the patients on behalf of the physician and healthcare professionals. All activities in a medical diagnostic laboratory (MDL) carried out by the laboratory technician are subject to rules for achievement of quality healthcare – they provide detailed information about the characteristics of the patients at risk of disease or affected by the relevant health problem; details about the diagnostic test to be made for confirmation of the diagnosis; a proposal for treatment, including modified risk factors, prescribed medicines, undertaken procedures, give the information about whether a case is referred to a specialist or for hospitalization, etc.