Abstract
WE ARE living in an age that seems to be devoted to the goals of accelerating progress, reducing working time, and creating machines that will perform the work of man. More and more tasks that once served to develop man's skill and mental acuity are being relegated to the realm of inanimate servants. This march toward mechanization has made slower progress in the field of medicine than in industries, in which machines have reduced the need for human workers to the bare essential supervisory personnel. In most branches of medicine the individual physician is still the indispensable man and his functions cannot as yet be mechanized. In the field of laboratory medicine, however, there is an increasing tendency to relegate to a secondary position the role of the individual and to exalt the apparatus, the test, and the report. This accentuation of the inanimate in medicine is a
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