Alcune considerazioni su storia della SIBioC ed esperienza professionale

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ABSTRACT

Some considerations on the SIBioC history and a professional experience.

In 1953, I started my scientific professional career as a chemist in a research center located at the hospital of Busto Arsizio under the guidance of Prof. Giovanni Ceriotti. In those years, with very few exceptions in the whole country, the various activities of the clinical laboratory, ranging from pathology to blood banking, were under the responsibility of a single medical director, notwithstanding the strong protest of laboratorians graduated in chemistry or biology. However, under the increasing pressure of the scientific and technologic evolution, things were changing and I was appointed as the responsible for the clinical chemistry laboratory of a large metropolitan hospital in Brescia. Two main facts contributed to changing the perspective: a) medical and scientific faculties instituted courses in clinical chemistry and specific post-graduated specialization schools; b) a new scientific association (SIBioC) was founded, opened to the cooperation of everybody working in the clinical laboratory, independently of his graduation. A long period of strong contrasts between medical doctors and those graduated in chemistry or biology followed, each group strenuously defending its own professional career and its unique rights to manage a clinical laboratory. SIBioC representatives and politicians of different parties were requested to act as referees in this complex situation, through the creation of specific technical commissions or expert groups. Because of my peculiar expertise and professional experience, I was frequently asked to contribute to the work of such working groups. For many years, experts were, however, unable to reach an acceptable consensus, but in the meantime the concept matured that none of the mentioned university courses (either medicine or chemistry or biology) is sufficient to guarantee the complete formation of a clinical laboratory director. The concept is eventually included in the curriculum studiorum presently prescribed.

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