Trip to Georgetown, Guyana

This trip was quite an adventure and only the second time I have visited South America! The first time was in 1977 on our honeymoon! No rose-colored glasses this time around!

With colleagues I revised the Basic Laboratory Operations Training (BLOT) to better meet the needs of resouce limited countries working towards improving the accuracy of medical laboratory testing. The Medical Laboratory Scientists working in the hospital labs in Georgetown are just amazing! In addition to their professionalism, their love of their career, they all work together as the perfect laboratory team, and thoroughly enjoy their work.
As timing would have it, we gave the workshop the same week as Laboratory Professionals International Celebration Week. And, believe me, the technologists in Georgetown celebrate big-time! There were activities sponsored by their national Medical Technology Association every night. Unknown to Connie (my colleague) and myself- WE were the speakers for two of the evening! Imagine our surprise at being asked to prepare a presentation with only a few hours notice!! But we did and there was a large group of medical technologists who showed up to hear us talk about our profession from a U.S. prespective!!!
Again, more to come in a day or so.