Introduction to Clinical Mycology

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March 2012

And I think one thing you need to remember and that is, that it is up to you. The institution where you work is made up of probably wonderful people, but it is your institution and when you are working in circumstances that are not right, you need to say something. You look at a result from a culture and you say, “This just doesn’t make any sense.” Then, you need to pick up the phone and call someone or call a clinician and say, “Here is what we have, but this just doesn’t seem right.” You are the one that is the “stakeholder” in there and you need to be assertive and work for your institution to do the best job you can for patient care.

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