Importance of Studying Disease and Disease Processes-Crimson Publishers

Importance of Studying Disease and DiseaseProcesses by Gundu HR Rao* in Developments in Clinical & Medical Pathology According to Health Encyclopaedia of the University of Rochester Medical Centre, New York, clinical pathology covers a wide range of laboratory functions and is concerned with the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of diseases. Clinical pathologists are healthcare providers with special training, who often direct all of the special divisions of the laboratory. This may include the blood bank, clinical chemistry, biology , toxicology, hematology, immunology, serology, and microbiology . Clinical pathology also involves maintenance of information systems, research, and quality control. As an emeritus professor of the Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, University of Minnesota, which has over a century of experience teaching this subject, I totally agree with the above definition when it comes to pathology. However, modern pathology i...