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.
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.