When Pathology and Laboratory Medicine Becomes a Commodity and Health Care Becomes Both Its Customer and Owner

Acad Pathol. 2018 Jul 26:5:2374289518785373. doi: 10.1177/2374289518785373. eCollection 2018 Jan-Dec.

James R Wright Jr^{1

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¹ Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, University of Calgary, Cumming School of Medicine, Calgary Laboratory Services-Alberta Children's Hospital Site, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
² Department of Paediatrics, University of Calgary, Cumming School of Medicine, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
³ Dr. Wright is currently Scholar-in-Residence, The Ohio State University Medical Heritage Center, Columbus, OH, USA.

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Keywords: Alberta; Calgary Laboratory Service; health-care regionalization; merger; model.