Introduction to Clinical Mycology

Clinical Microbiology Today

March 2012

So we find ourselves in a different environment these days. We find that we have working pressures that are different from ever before, we have to work with fewer people for the most part because of cost containment, we want shortened turnaround times. Our staff insists that we do the work and try to get rapid results, there with fewer people, we don’t use as many expendables, and so on, as we used to. So we try to reduce the expense in the laboratory. We are supposed to use rapid tests to get rapid turnaround times. We are supposed to get accurate results, and you combine all of this, it makes it difficult. But people are able to do that by just working together.

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