A Career As A Medical Technologist

Patrick Swayze once said, “ I keep dreaming of a future, a future with a long and healthy life, not lived in the shadow of cancer but in the light.” The career of a Medical Technologist is a hard and thoughtful career because other people depend on you to help better them. The research will describe the career of a Medical Technologist, and the impact this career has on society. As a little kid I have always been fascinated science and how it has been changing the world today. Finding new ways to cure diseases and being able to help save someone’s life would be pretty great. I would love to be a part of a big change in the recovery in someone else’s life. The history of Medical Technologists is very simple. In the early 19th century physicians …show more content…
It is rated 16th in the list of 250 jobs, and ranked third in the healthcare category. What exactly do Medical Technologist do? The duty of a Medical Technologist is to help find and treat diseases. They examine samples under microscopes to identify the problem. They also help find the cause(s) of a death. Others help to better testing methods. They are trained to work with infectious specimens or other materials that produce fumes. To get those samples they often times have to lift or turn disabled patients. They wear protective masks, gloves, and goggles for safety and protection. A Medical Technologist usually works from thirty-five to forty hours a week. Often times in a hospital a night time shift or a weekend shift is required. Many times a Medical Technologist may be on his/her feet for long periods of time working under the …show more content…
With satisfactory experience and more training, medical technologist can advance to supervisory fields or specialists fields in clinical laboratory work. Medical technologist employed in larger labs tend to specialize in a specific area of medical laboratory technology. A clinical laboratory director. for example, is very important. They are the ones responsible for the supervision of the technologist and staff and the equality of the work. They assign duties, hire and fire staff. Also, clinical laboratory directors make the rules and standards. Another example of a common specialty is phlebotomists, this is the most common type of medical technologist because they are the ones the draw blood samples and test them for things such as blood donations. The vials containing the blood are labeled and sent to a testing facility. A third field I want to talk about related to medical technology is the role of a medical laboratory technician. A medical laboratory technician perform routine tests in medical laboratories. They prepare samples of body tissue and perform various laboratory