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My official title is senior biomedical scientist with a special role of training officer.
I work in an area called histology which is the study if human disease. My job is to receive specimens from people (who are still alive)- anything from a mole they just don’t like to tonsils, or kidneys, or anything else that can be removed from the body. Is them arrives to me, I cut it up and look at the specimen and decide which bit to test. I will then process that specimen in various chemicals and cut it very thinly (one cell thick) and put that on a slide. It then gets stained awesome colours so then I can look at all the cells and tissue under the microscope. When I think it’s ready I will send it to a pathologist who will then diagnose the patient with what they have ie massively inflamed tonsils, TB, cancer etc.
As training officer I make sure everyone in the lab is up to scratch and doing a good job as well as training new scientists and making them the best scientists!!