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    26 days ago

    It’s never easy to connect samples properly in the field and it’s never easy to draw conclusions from imperfect sampling.

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      26 days ago

      I’m in pathology (research, transitioning to medical) so that was my frame of reference here. Its my job take the samples given to the lab and turn them into slides for analysis but tue results are only as good as what I’m given in the first place (crap in, crap out). same with blood draws, urines, anything improperly collected no longer properly represents the thing it came from. Then I have to tell the client that…