well said
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> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Dr. Ian Montgomery. [SMTP:ian.montgomery@bio.gla.ac.uk]
> Sent:	Thursday, May 24, 2001 11:13 AM
> To:	histonet@pathology.swmed.edu
> Subject:	Fwd: Re: histotechs
> 
> Rob,
>         My opinion of your Lecturer would offend the ladies but let's say
> it's not flattering. I have a first degree and a PhD and since the 12th
> September 1966 have been a Technician here in Glasgow. Technicians do what
> they are told - give me a break. Scientists have to understand and
> interpret - well, well, touch of the Steven Spielbergs here.
>         In my experience who actually trains the scientists, the
> technicians of course. So if the technician doesn't understand what they
> are training what sort of scientists are we producing. Interpretation, the
> first line of experimental interpretation is the technician. Without the
> technician telling the scientist that the experimental protocol is good,
> bad or indifferent science would grind to a halt. Technicians can quickly
> interpret results simply by being technically competent and be good
> scientists. 
>         Science is moving on at an alarming rate but who has the core
> skills needed to keep this momentum, yes, it's the technician. So if the
> technician doesn't understand or have the ability to interpret science is
> doomed. 
>         Your former Lecturer was a snob, yes, an academic snob.
> Ian.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 	Date: Thu, 24 May 2001 16:03:35 +1000
> 	From: Robert Wadley <r.wadley@unsw.edu.au>
> 	Subject: Re: histotechs
> 	To: histonet@pathology.swmed.edu
> 	
> 	
> 	        My personal bias is to consider those people with degrees as
> professionals & those without as technicians.  The difference was best
> summed up by one of my University lecturers; "Technicians do what they are
> told, scientists have to understand & interpret."  Thus as scientists we
> were not in a position to blindly accept any result provided (particularly
> by electronic instrumentation) but to interpret the result in the context
> of the other clinical data supplied.
> 	
> 	        Regards
> 	
> 	        Rob W.
> 	
> 	At 15:13 05/23/2001 -0400, JHoffpa464@aol.com wrote:
> 	
> 
> 		a survey:  should histotechs be considered professionals?
> if so why?  if
> 		not why?
> 
> 
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