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Understanding Tests
April 28, 2008 1:20 PM by Scott Warner

It is the laboratory scientist's responsibility to make a test choice clear for the physician. We can be expected to reasonably interpret an order that doesn't match a menu name (AST for SGOT, for example). Other times, a questionable order is a methodology Read More...

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Quick and Dirty, Part One
March 13, 2008 1:21 PM by Scott Warner

As a programmer on the coast of Maine 20 years ago, I liked a quick and dirty solution--the inelegant, simplistic, but often workable idea. Scientists call this lex parsimoniae or Occam's Razor (after a 14 th century English logician), which states the Read More...

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