Lab technician shortage worries some professionals
Lab technician Boyce Lawson works in the lab Thursday at Diagnostic Laboratory of Oklahoma. Photo by Chris Landsberger, The Oklahoman
Boyce Lawson had just left the military and was unsure of his future as he took a maintenance job at a hospital.
"Every day, I was dirty and sweaty and I didn’t want to spend my life that way,” Lawson said. "I began to talk to people around the hospital and they led me in different directions and finally I ended up looking at medical technology.” That was 35 years ago, and despite going from a largely manual job to one that involves computers in almost every function, Lawson has no regrets. But he’s also got gray hair and isn’t that far away from retiring. And that’s a problem for his employer, Diagnostic Laboratory of Oklahoma, which is looking at more than 60 percent of work force retiring this next decade. "We’ve had a lot of people here for a long time,” said James McKissick, human resources director at Diagnostic Laboratory of Oklahoma. "The crisis is the jobs are there, but nobody is really going into the field like they used to.
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