CEO SUMMARY: In Ireland, pathologists are asking the government to return enough Pap tests back to the country to support and sustain medical training programs in gynecologic cytology. It was 2008 when the Irish government outsourced all Pap testing to a U.S. lab company. That forced Ireland’s major cytology laboratories to shut down their cervical […]
Irish Labs Appeal to Keep Pap Smear Expertise
Decision to outsource nation’s Pap tests overseas makes it tough to train new doctors in cytology
- By Robert Michel
- > From the Volume XVI No. 12 - August 31, 2009 Issue
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