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Philadelphia industries responded more than enthusiastically to Sullivan's program, providing both money and machinery for instruction. Sperry Rand contributed a $350,000 Univac computer. Smith Kline & French outfitted a laboratory for the instruction of chemical-lab technicians. The Budd Co., one of the nation's biggest makers of subway cars, gave equipment for training sheet-metal workers, then hired 200 of the graduates...
Sencer of the National Communicable Disease Center declared that of the estimated 500 million medical lab tests done each year in the U.S., no less than 25%, or 125 million, produce defective or dangerously wrong results...
...answer is that too many of them are neither aseptic nor scientific; nor are they run by experts. There are about 14,000 of them in the U.S. Half of these are in hospitals, and 400 are run by states and cities. That leaves almost 6,600 independent labs which, in 47 states, are under no effective control whatsoever. Only California, Illinois and New York require licensing of labs. Half a dozen other states require that the director of a lab must have some professional qualifications, but he need not be on the spot; this is an invitation for unscrupulous...
Once in business, the lab can solicit doctors with profitable come-ons. It may offer "all the tests your patients require" for a flat fee of $75 a month-and subtly encourage the doctor who orders 100 tests a month to bill his patients for tests at $3 to $10 each. At whatever price, a test is worse than useless and may have fatal results unless the technicians know how to run it and have the right equipment. On this score also, Dr. Sencer had bad news. More than 20% of test materials examined by the NCDC were found faulty...