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In the Age of Automation, Human Collaboration Still Counts: Survey Highlights Critical Role of Medical Lab Staff, Influences on Doctors' Orders
CHICAGO, July 29, 2025--A survey of 408 U.S. physicians, conducted by YouGov analysis institute and commissioned by Siemens Healthineers, reveals how significant laboratory testing is to doctors’ clinical decisions and how reliant they are upon the support laboratory professionals provide. Doctors have a robust clinical toolkit to inform patient care decisions, which includes laboratory testing. To what extent physicians use and rely upon laboratory testing, however, has historically been unclea
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