Medical and Diagnostic Laboratories provide analytic or diagnostic services to the medical profession or directly to patients following a physician’s prescription. Workers may analyze blood, take x-rays and computerized tomography scans, or perform other clinical tests. Medical and diagnostic laboratories provide the fewest number of jobs in the health care industry. *

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Medical and Diagnostic Laboratories

* The 2006-07 Career Guide to Industries, U.S. Department of Labor: Bureau of Labor Statistics