Stories from the Laboratory
Every day, laboratory healthcare professionals make critical decisions about cancer treatment, manage chronic conditions like diabetes, and kidney disease, and screen for infections, viruses, anaemia, high cholesterol levels, heart disease and other disorders. Trusted laboratory testing is essential to delivering high quality care, and lab test results play a vital role in almost every patient pathway through the healthcare system.
Most people know what a biopsy is, but who makes the diagnosis and how? This short video takes you to South West London Pathology's hub laboratory and speaks to the various pathologists, scientists and support staff who work in the lab and contribute to making a diagnosis.
Produced by: The Royal College of Pathologists and South West London Pathology
Credits: Stock footage: Falkenauge, Wikimedia Commons, Alex Alexandrov, Radiopaedia.org Music: https://soundcloud.com/ehrling
Blood tests look at different things, they can be used to screen and diagnose health issues as well as monitor treatment. This short video heads to SWLPathology’s biggest lab to hear how pathologists and scientists work together to help make a diagnosis on a particular blood test: ferritin.
Produced by: The Royal College of Pathologists @RCPath South West London Pathology @SWLPathology
Credits: Stock footage: Falkenauge, Wikimedia Commons, Alex Alexandrov, Radiopaedia.org Music: https://soundcloud.com/ehrling
The doctors briefly explain what their different specialties, histopathology, hameatology, medical microbiology and chemical pathology, entail. This film was made as part of International Pathology Day 2018, held in Cairo.
Source: The Royal College of Pathologists - YouTube
Pathologists are experts in disease. They use their expertise to support every aspect of healthcare, from guiding doctors on the right way to treat common diseases, to treating patients with life-threatening conditions.
Animation credit: http://www.carseandwaterman.com/
Source: The Royal College of Pathologists - YouTube
Histopathologists are expert doctors who are responsible for diagnosing and studying disease in tissues and organs by examining samples of tissue. Find out more about a career in histopathology in this short video.
Produced by: Rachel Berkoff
Source: The Royal College of Pathologists - YouTube
Dr Mark Howard is a Consultant Histopathologist at King’s College Hospital in London. This interview dives in to what histopathology is like as a career, from the kind of people he works with, to the types of tasks he has to take part in, including cutting up biopsies, going to the mortuary and investigating diseases under the microscope.
Produced by: Rachel Berkoff
Source: The Royal College of Pathologists - YouTube
Clinical Biochemists diagnose and manage disease by analysing bodily fluid. Chemical pathologists test for proteins, vitamins and hormones. They then look at the patterns of the test results to work out why someone is feeling unwell.
Produced by: Rachel Berkoff
Source: The Royal College of Pathologists - YouTube
Joanne Morris is a Consultant Clinical Scientist in Chemical Pathology/Clinical Biochemistry working at the Whittington Hospital in London. Joanne talks about her career as Consultant Clinical Scientist
Produced by: Rachel Berkoff
Source: The Royal College of Pathologists - YouTube
Find out more about a career in haematology: https://www.rcpath.org/discover-pathology/careers-in-pathology/careers-in-medicine/become-a-haematologist.html
Produced by: Rachel Berkoff
Source: The Royal College of Pathologists - YouTube
What does a medical microbiologist do? Dr Shanika Crusz’s role is to diagnose, treat and prevent infection caused by micro-organisms (bacteria, viruses, fungi and parasites). Find out more about what a medical microbiologist does in this short video.
Produced by: Rachel Berkoff
Source: The Royal College of Pathologists - YouTube
A short introductory video for children about how biomedical science is at the heart of everybody's healthcare.
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