[What is the ideal attainment of clinical laboratory works?]

This is the specified address delivered at the 20th meeting of the Chugoku-Shikoku District of the Japanese Society of Clinical Pathologists (JSCP). More than 40 years have elapsed since the incipient epoch of clinical pathology in this country, when physicians, surgeons and pathologists gathered, for the first time, to institute a scientific medical association (JSCP) for the purpose of elevating daily medical services to the modernized level through active use of clinical laboratory examination. Since then the laboratory examination has undergone a rapid progress and many new techniques have appeared. Excellent equipments and reagents are being supplied from the engineering and pharmaceutical companies. Thus, the clinical laboratories have assumed an out-look of a big factory equipped with a variety of automatic analysers and a large number of computers, and the figures of many laboratory staffs are peeped among them. In this situation there arose several problems urgently needed for control to hole the laboratory ideal in service to the medical doctors as well as to the patients. 1. Management of personnels (medical technologists and others) who are dissatisfied with daily robot-like works and discordant human relations. 2. Report sheets sent to the medical doctors are not employed adequately for the care of patients, because they are handed over in uncooked style without clinical laboratory interpretation and recommendation. Therefore, the laboratory medical doctors are ranked below the medical doctors on the wards and outpatient clinic. 3. Too many tests are ordered to the laboratory without adequate recognition of their usefulness.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)