WISH TO BE A CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGIST ?– Many Microbiologists working in the healthcare wish to be clinical Microbiologists, certainly it is the need to be accepted as a clinical colleague, much of the developed countries have realized the clinical importance of a Microbiologist who has a great role to interpret the diagnostic reports and guide the clinicians to change the antibiotic usage as a matter of optimal antibiotic policy, still we have to catch and but all can try to prove their competence in the system we work If you are a clinical microbiologist and spend a good chunk of your day signing out/authorizing routine urine and wound swab results, specimen arising from the critically ill patients with sepsis and not forgetting the infectious etiologies of ventilator associate pneumonia's you should be worried. We need to make sure that we are performing tasks that justifies both our position and our qualifications. If we are not, then we need to do something about it, or we are forgotten soon in the system very soon, As I said to many colleagues a Professional or professor of Microbiology, who cannot do simple things in laboratory and or not having good interaction with clinical colleagues are most ignored not forgetting It is easy to get very comfortable when you fall into comfort zone “This is easy money, I can do this with my eyes closed, there is no need to change anything.” It’s a dangerous mindset to get into however, because in one’s experience, such scenarios as described above are never left hanging indefinitely in the long term, A truly committed Microbiologist working in a poor infrastructure worried missing something very important, a professionally conscious Microbiologist fears missing something, of not diagnosing that long shot… But sometimes it is best just to trust good clinical acumen, if you are medically qualified with MD form a credited Institute and try visiting patients in critical care units, serious with sepsis, and ICU’s we WILL soon realize the importance of bed side medicine, and know the critical puzzles can be cracked, and appreciate that laboratory testing can occasionally cause more harm than good… more testing without rationalism leading to confusion in delivering the laboratory reports . Today Diagnostic medical laboratories are businesses nowadays, and employers are always on the lookout for ways they can get the same job done for less money, And compromise on many matters, 
GETTING BACK TO OUR CLINICAL KNOWLEDGE ON INFECTIOUS DISEASES A GREAT PRIORITY WITH MANY UNDEPENDABLE TESTS MANY PERFORM JUST READ/ REFER THE BEST OF MENDEL'S INFECTIOUS DISEASES WE CAN TRULY PERFORM AS CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGISTS
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