Re: [Gnumed-devel] test requests and importing, BC (CA) anticoag pilot (was: test imports)

[E Dodd]

On Friday 25 February 2005 12:42, J Busser wrote:
> At 6:43 PM -0500 2/24/05, Ian Haywood wrote:
> >  > Also, a doctor from the practice is always *supposed* to be available
> >>
> >>  to be called out of hours in case it is during this time that a lab
> >>  technician identifies a "critical result".
> >
> >Lab techs working after hours. Wow ;-)
>
> Well, it is mainly lab techs working during times that the office of
> the *doctor* who ordered the tests is closed (say, Wednesday
> afternoon or on a Saturday). But on occasion I am aware, in the case
> of bizarre clinical conditions (typically hematologic) technicians
> are scheduled to work into the evening or may be asked ad hoc to work
> overtime at the direction of a concerned lab doctor. But likely you
> appreciated this and were just joking. :-)
>
because our labs have remote collection centres and centralised expensive 
equipment, the central labs do run late shifts, because a lot of stuff comes 
in on evening flights.
Lzi

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