# National Medical Laboratory Professionals Week!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/national-medical-laboratory-professionals-week/579899>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [April 27, 2011, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/national-medical-laboratory-professionals-week/579899 "2011-04-27T14:49:30Z")\
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**Author:** ![Antigen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/848f3c/32.png) [@Antigen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antigen)\
**Post date:** [April 27, 2011, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/national-medical-laboratory-professionals-week/579899/1 "2011-04-27T14:49:30Z")

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It’s Lab Week! Do you know where your laboratory professionals are? Probably in a hospital basement, busting their butts to get results out to your doctors so they can treat you!

I know there are a few other lab rats on the SDMB, so I’d like to wish a happy Lab Week to you all! Any fun celebrations in your neck of the woods?

Because I feel like Lab Week should be more about promoting our profession than just badgering vendors to get us free lunches, this year I put a big effort into making a “what happens in the lab” slideshow. The public relations department was very helpful and got my work posted to the hospital’s intranet page so that all the other departments get a chance to see into the lab and learn a little about what we do.

I [put the show up onto YouTube](http://youtu.be/e2LKOGebrIw) so everyone could share it with friends and family outside of work, and I would like to share it with you. It doesn’t have sound and it’s a very amateur show, but it means a lot to me to share it with people and spread awareness of what laboratory professionals are doing 24 hours a day to contribute to the healthcare team.

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**Author:** ![congodwarf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e36b37/32.png) [@congodwarf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/congodwarf)\
**Post date:** [April 27, 2011, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/national-medical-laboratory-professionals-week/579899/2 "2011-04-27T20:46:38Z")

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That was very cool **Antigen**. Thank you for posting it.  
HAPPY MEDICAL LAB PROFESSIONALS WEEK!!!😃