Abstract
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Highlights
Several medical specialties remain obscure to nonmedical people and the specialty of pathology is one of these
Q: A What? What do you mean by a pathologist? A: Oh, a Laboratory Physician
The various specialties of pathology have in common the function of scientific study of disease, employing laboratory-based methods which lead to diagnosis, elucidation of mechanisms involved in the disease process, as well as morphological and functional manifestations of the disease
Summary
Even more worrying is lack of appreciation of the research potential of laboratory medicine, considering that it provides a repository of confirmatory data on many human disorders; data that have been usefully employed for the study of various diseases in developed parts of the world. It is perhaps, the reason that many diseases peculiar to developing countries still remain untamed.
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