QUESTION 10 OF 20

How do you feel about the various automated tests that are done? Do you feel you can rely on the results?

Modern machinery for automated tests has created both better efficiency and accuracy. Standards for both their manufacture, interval testing, and quality control is strictly managed, meaning you're going to come off as some kind of Luddite if you say you don't trust them. However, good medicine implies a 'trust-but-verify' philosophy, so that should be the theme of your answer.

"The automated clinical technology is very reliable, but I feel I owe it to a patient to verify all worrisome results by either repeating the test or manually performing it myself. In this way I can be assured I am providing the pathology--and clinical--service and accuracy a patient should expect. Although inaccuracies are uncommon, they do happen, and part of my work is knowing when the results are actually true or not and which ones need further scrutiny."

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