PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE AU - P. Harrison TI - Laboratory medicine needs higher profile with medical students, MDs, pathologists say DP - 1995 Sep 15 TA - Canadian Medical Association Journal PG - 805--808 VI - 153 IP - 6 4099 - http://www.cmaj.ca/content/153/6/805.short 4100 - http://www.cmaj.ca/content/153/6/805.full SO - CMAJ1995 Sep 15; 153 AB - Laboratory medicine is a troubled specialty these days, buffeted by the conflicting pressures of reduced funding for more work and a declining physician population. A consortium of laboratory physicians has produced a report on the future of pathology and laboratory medicine, which explores the problems facing the specialties and some potential solutions. Raising the profile of laboratory medicine among medical students and eventual unification of pathology and the various arms of laboratory medicine are among the suggested solutions.