So...
The lab and pathology trade journal DARK REPORT asks an interesting question in an opinion piece in the March 30, 2020 issue:
"Can Clinical Labs, Pathology Ever Produce a National Figure like a Dr. Fauci or a Dr. Oz?"
It's a good point. Public health figures get media value (Dr. Brix); prior leaders of CDC and FDA get a lot of media (Tom Frieden, Scott Gottlieb). Where's the laboratorian or pathologist among them?
With the colossal emphasis on lab testing in the global high-trillion-dollar COVID crisis, it would be great if one of the top 3 or 4 names we hear every day was a laboratorian or pathologist. Dark Report makes a good point.
We occasionally see e.g. George Lundberg (here) or Roger Klein (here) or Robert Boorstein (here, here) but not at the level of familiar-face media visibility that Dark Report thinks is important. The current AMA CEO, James Madara, was prior Chair of Pathology at Emery, but I never see him quoted as a voice for pathology and COVID.
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Separately, an April 27 article at MedCityNews by Blair Holliday on status and empowerment of lab professionals - here.
