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The Westgards traveled all over the world in 2010. A year end perspective on what they saw.
Wisconsin is covered with snow, some 18 inches has fallen here in Madison, schools are closed, the University students are staging the biggest snowball fight ever, and I’m “homebound” until the streets get plowed. It seems like a good time to stop and think about the past year and start planning for the next year.
Dr. Westgard returned to his birthplace in March 2009. Reflecting on events there more than half a century ago, as well as those terrible floods of more recent times, Dr. Westgard writes that both past and present call us to quality.
Dr. Westgard receives the
2003 Professor Alvin Dubin Award for Distinguished Contributions to the Discipline and Practice of Clinical Biochemistry from the NACB
February 2007
This year will see the launch of a fleet of new regulations and standards for the laboratory and the manufacturer. But is it really enough to verify that an instrument does what the manufacturer says it does? Don't we need to assure that the instrument does something clinically useful, too?