From what I know about LifeLabs, they're more or less beholden to doctors. Doctor says "do this test and check for this," and LifeLabs does without asking questions. I don't see them as decision makers. Lord help them when machines can do visual analyses more effectively, because then the employees won't be needed at all.
Less training (nurses go through universities, medlab people go through colleges,) more specialization. So you'll have technologists who only look for and identify bacteria, ones only for fungi, ones only for parasites, ones only for abnormalities in cell tissues, etc.
I tooka quick look at OMERS website. They also own/invest in a similar medical testing lab in Alberta.
They also own/invest in Bruce Power, power distribution, bridges (confederation bridge), ports, sattelite communications in Canada (http://www.cielsatellite.ca/) and Teranet (stores all property ownership info in Ontario and Manitoba in a giant, constantly updating, database. )
Anyhow, they may or may not be relevant to the bigger picture. They could be owned by the elite and calling shots, or they could just be investors.
Pensions get so huge they basically have to keep investing in bigger and bigger things or else the whole thing collapses under its own weight. Don't you remember when the teachers' pension fund owned the Leafs?
They're a private medical testing centre. Ever get bloodwork done at the doctor? Doctor sends it to LifeLabs (or another lab like Gamma-DynaCare,) they do the test and send the results back to the doctor.
Ask your doctor which lab they send the testing to. They should be able to tell you. Unless you're going to a hospital, in which case their testing might be in-house.
From what I know about LifeLabs, they're more or less beholden to doctors. Doctor says "do this test and check for this," and LifeLabs does without asking questions. I don't see them as decision makers. Lord help them when machines can do visual analyses more effectively, because then the employees won't be needed at all.
Less training (nurses go through universities, medlab people go through colleges,) more specialization. So you'll have technologists who only look for and identify bacteria, ones only for fungi, ones only for parasites, ones only for abnormalities in cell tissues, etc.
I tooka quick look at OMERS website. They also own/invest in a similar medical testing lab in Alberta.
They also own/invest in Bruce Power, power distribution, bridges (confederation bridge), ports, sattelite communications in Canada (http://www.cielsatellite.ca/) and Teranet (stores all property ownership info in Ontario and Manitoba in a giant, constantly updating, database. )
Anyhow, they may or may not be relevant to the bigger picture. They could be owned by the elite and calling shots, or they could just be investors.
Pensions get so huge they basically have to keep investing in bigger and bigger things or else the whole thing collapses under its own weight. Don't you remember when the teachers' pension fund owned the Leafs?
They're a private medical testing centre. Ever get bloodwork done at the doctor? Doctor sends it to LifeLabs (or another lab like Gamma-DynaCare,) they do the test and send the results back to the doctor.
Ask your doctor which lab they send the testing to. They should be able to tell you. Unless you're going to a hospital, in which case their testing might be in-house.