Managing financial crisis in the laboratory.
Recently the Department of Pathology, Cooper Medical Center, suffered a sudden reduction in its operating budget. Here the author explains the cause of the crisis and he outlines, for those whose laboratories may experience a similar cut in funds, the steps his department took to meet the reduction without decreasing significantly the laboratory services provided.
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