Understanding Your Medical Laboratory Tests and Surgical Biopsy Reports: A Paient's Guide Book

This user-friendly book is written to help consumers understand medical clinical laboratory tests and surgical pathology reports. The orientation is toward patients with a medical problem, the “worried well” who probably don’t have a problem, and the medical professionals and allied health providers who do not realize that a huge information gap exist between themselves and their patients. The chapter describing the shortcomings of laboratory test report forms is aimed directly at doctors, laboratorians, and other health care providers with examples of laboratory test report formats that can improve communication between the consumer, the clinical laboratory, and the health care provider.