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Coping with transitions
May 6, 2013 3:30 PM
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Glen McDaniel
My friend Martha is 60 years old. She had been with her company for years in various roles from manager to director and finally COO. This past year she had some challenges related to her health, her mom died and she got divorced after almost 40 years
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Laboratory Professionals Get Results
April 22, 2013 8:11 PM
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Glen McDaniel
It is that time of year when we celebrate National Medical Laboratory Professionals Week (NMLPW). This is a week when the various, often competing, laboratory organizations join forces to honor the more than 300,000 medical laboratory professionals around
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Wanna Buy a Credential?
March 24, 2013 3:16 PM
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Glen McDaniel
Since the ASCP took over the popular and progressive NCA in 2009, I have periodically received emails from medical lab professionals not happy with the merger for various reasons. Prompted by this overwhelming response, I have previously blogged about
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How Will the Sequester Affect You?
March 7, 2013 11:35 AM
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Glen McDaniel
With all this talk about sequestration everyone is bound to be concerned with how these spending cuts will affect them. Sequestration is such an odd word to be used Congress and picked up by the media as if it were a part of the regular lexicon. It is
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References Could Make or Break Your Job Search
February 23, 2013 7:24 PM
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Glen McDaniel
Many individuals have decided that 2013 is the year they change jobs. Others are looking for employment because they have recently lost a job. According to polls conducted by Human Resource firm Allison &Taylor one of the 10 most popular New Year's
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Disruptive Technologies of 2013
February 17, 2013 2:34 PM
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Glen McDaniel
Most of us with our smart phone and tablets and wireless cable boxes do not generally think of technology as being disruptive or being a bad thing. Disruptive generally suggests annoyance or interruption like a traffic jam or electrical outage that throw
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Happy New Year
December 31, 2012 6:25 PM
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Glen McDaniel
As 2012 draws to a close, it is common to look backwards over the past year and to set course for the year ahead. As my readers know, I am not one for making New Year's resolutions, but only because the practice is so contrived and ineffective, with many
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No Emmy for My Hard Work?
December 23, 2012 5:31 PM
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Glen McDaniel
I love attending parties. For one, I get to unwind and spend time with friends. But I also love the opportunity of meeting new people and hearing about their lives. I have long realized that I learn much more from listening than I do from talking and
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Speed Kills
December 9, 2012 10:11 PM
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Glen McDaniel
As clinical laboratorians we are taught the importance of the information we provide for clinical decision making. Technology has made it possible to use small sample sizes to generate "numbers" in a very short period of time. Sometimes physicians (and
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World AIDS Day Recap
December 1, 2012 5:36 PM
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Glen McDaniel
Today, December 1, is World AIDS Day . This is the 25 th annual observance of the day originally organized under the auspices of the World Health Organization (WHO) to raise the awareness of HIV/AIDS and garner support for research, understanding, education
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Elections are Over
November 11, 2012 4:06 PM
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Glen McDaniel
The 2012 Presidential elections are now over. After a record estimated 6 billion dollars and a hugely divided electorate, President Barack Obama was re-elected rather resoundingly for a second four year term. In many ways this was not the highpoint in
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ASCLS and CLMA Talks Break Down Luckily
October 13, 2012 2:12 PM
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Glen McDaniel
I recently learned that the merger talks between two laboratory organizations ASCLS and CLMA have broken down. Now it might surprise you that as a long time, avid advocate of professional unification, I was not really devastated by this news. Here's some
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Why Doctors Abuse Lab Tests
September 16, 2012 2:37 PM
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Glen McDaniel
One of the most frustrating issues for clinical laboratorians is that clinicians continue to misuse laboratory testing. Laboratory utilization is a hot potato because of increased concerns with cost (to the laboratory and payer), extended length of stay
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Do You Practice the Olympic Spirit?
August 14, 2012 8:27 PM
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Glen McDaniel
The 2012 Summer Olympics in London just ended. I joined billions of people around the globe to watch sports from track and field to BMX racing and many in between. Not surprisingly, there were the stars and record breakers. US swimmer Michael Phelps became
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Membership Organizations Need to Step up Their Game
August 4, 2012 2:02 PM
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Glen McDaniel
I have long advocated active membership in professional organizations. We need a strong unified voice to represent us, whether we are educating the public or speaking to a legislator. I also firmly believe that sitting back and expecting "others" to do
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