Bill.....couldn't have put it better myself!!!!  GREAT explanation! LOL


At 10:35 AM 11/25/03 -0500, Starkus, Laurie wrote:
>Bill, that's the best explanation of the inspection process I've ever heard.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Bill Blank [mailto:bill501@mindspring.com]
>Sent: Tuesday, November 25, 2003 10:18 AM
>To: histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu
>Cc: louise renton
>Subject: [Histonet] RE: undersink storage
>
>
>At 7:43 AM +0000 11/25/03, louise renton wrote:
> >Could someone please expand on this?  Obviously I am an ignorant
> >South African, but by "contamination" do you mean leakage of waste
> >water? And if your controls are as strict as I am led to believe (no
> >oozing blood and guts or toxic chemicals  going down the drain) why
> >does this constitute a problem?.  I am afraid that I am missing
> >something simple here.
> >Unless, could it be that  there are more crawling infants in
> >histolabs in the USA than I know of :>)!!!!!?
>
>GRIN.
>
>Hi Louise. In the US, the inspection process of hospitals and labs
>has become all about power and control and not about lab reliability
>or safety.
>
>The people in charge of 'inspecting' must find problems to justify
>their existence. There is much conflict of interest in this process.
>It is in a large part designed by lawyers to feed lawyers and by
>people who think we all have no common sense and must be treated like
>children.
>
>This year its about sinks; one year it's about using outdated
>expensive reagents that still work; one year it was about carpets in
>offices in labs, another about wearing non-dextrous rubber to prevent
>needle or scalpel sticks.
>
>One learns to grin and bear it and to pick one's nose when being
>condescended to.
>
>One learns to create appearances and to laugh at the inanities in life.
>
>One sometimes gets po'd and yells at inspectors.
>
>Cheers,
>
>Bill
>
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