advocacy for the profession …making a difference

Toronto

April 13, 2010

Elizabeth Mercuri, BSc, MLTProfessor, Medical Laboratory

ScienceThe Michener InstituteToronto, ON

Overton Brooks VAMC, LouisianaLouisiana State University

Laboratory Medicine

What is advocacy?

How does advocacy impact the profession?

How does leadership (or does it) relate?

Someone who speaks for another

Legal

Human rights

Health care

Behind the scenes MLTs are vital members of the healthcare team in their key role of laboratory testing.

70% of patient’s file is medical lab results 70% of physician’s treatment plan is based

on quality lab results

as part of the bigger health care picture,think outside of the lab and realize the contribution that you make in your daily worklife

“Your profession is not what brings home your paycheck. Your profession is what you were put on earth to do. With such passion and such intensity that it becomes spiritual in calling.”

-VirgilAncient Roman Poet and Author, 70-19

BC

http://thinkexist.com/quotes/virgil/

“We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what

we give.”

Winston Churchill

…requires self confidence and self leadership.

OUR Patients!

That we should get involved, develop

ourselves as leaders, advocate for the

profession,  and help shape the future of lab

medicine.

Toronto

April 13, 2010

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