LECTURE: Reflection Paper

One would say that it is quite peculiar that as civilization continues to progress, the more we are
bound by circumstances and finiteness. It would mean that progress equivocates limit as we
continue to find rules everywhere we go.
Safety rules, as the lecture cites, are given to us by given organizations and the like everywhere.
From the smallest unit of society (family) to a nation’s body of lawmakers. In a Med Lab
Scientist’s area of work, safety plays a significant role as to why the course continues to exist
today.
As I watched the lecture, I understood that medical workers aren’t clean freaks who cannot
afford to get dirty or have perfectionistic tendencies. Even the slightest hint of change in color
among sample labels denote significant difference of one health data from another. Safety is
studied elaborately and not by means of simply overviewing methods and methodologies.
Numerous organizations and agencies exist to set specific standards of values, monitor quality
control, ensure pathologist supervision, and license hospitals to operate (this, also departmental).
All these organizations are bureaucratically held together in which in their individual tasks, they
hold detrimental roles in health care. It is very apparent that these governing bodies are
established to hold a high premium on safety techniques and regulations in medical laboratories.
The little prince once said that what is essential is naked to the eye. As a lab scientist, this proves
true because what we often regard to be secure may actually not be. No amount of adamantly
observing the particles of the air would completely asepticize the surroundings. Procedures and
processes are followed for this assurance to be acquired.
This also applies on the analysis of samples, to reduce the margin of error, if not completely
eradicating it, scientists devised systems and types of technology that are objective and reliable.
These come in handy as the laboratory contain the most hazardous chemicals and requires utmost
delicacy. A mistake, no matter insignificant may cause irreparable damage not only to oneself but
also to those around.
I realize, medical practitioners don’t have much of that—margins of error. That is why lab safety
practices exist. It’s not a walk in the park. It’s not even a three-mile run. It’s at least 3 year-
courses of understanding and memorizing facts—standard temperatures, time intervals and
measurements.
Indeed, rules are meant for us to abide in certain behaviors. However, this does not restrict us. In
knowing the rules and applying them, we become a force for the greater good as we avoid death,
ours and others’ and use our knowledge to even further the profession that we have.

This is an original work submitted by the undersigned in fulfillment of the requirements of Principles in
Medical Laboratory Science 2 – MT 106: AGATEP, Ma. Camella R. -
This is an original work submitted by the undersigned in fulfillment of the requirements of Principles in
Medical Laboratory Science 2 – MT 106: AGATEP, Ma. Camella R. -