Quote Originally Posted by jackson.alan46 View Post
Care assistants likewise have duties which are indeed beyond many people's "boundaries" . Unpleasant work at times, but what they do is essential, and we should be grateful to them.
Medical laboratory scientists ... are the "backroom" boys and girls who are often not understood and therefore not appreciated. But please remember if a patient might have meningitis, needs an urgent blood test, transfusion, or a biopsy sample for cancer, they depend on these "lab technicians" (who all have a degree, just like nurses are soon to need).

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I've got nothing but respect for the care assistants, my mom is in a care home , so i know what a difficult job they do and how unpleasant it can be

and there are many other people who do an important job for the NHS who don't have or need a degree, my misses is a Senior Assistant technical officer in the haematology depart (vampire squad) taking blood from patients, she gets to chat to mostly pensioners who tell her stories a few of her patients were in the royal navy, who were in the Philippines as WW2 ended and tell her what it was like then