Analyst medical records

East River HIV Center Clinical Research Assistant/Data Analyst Abstracted and recorded relevant data to the HIV prevention study from patient medical records. 

I was not involved in clinical research initially as a career. I was a medical records analyst/correspondent for a family practice health maintenance organization (HMO). A friend told me about the position, I applied, and here I am, nine years later. I am now responsible for large-scale respiratory studies within oncology, dealing with physician-initiated and industrial clinical trials. 

To establish the "quality" of the human body, it is necessary to have correct information concerning its environment, and the food and pharmaceutical products administrated within less than 24 hours. With this knowledge, the medical practitioner will be able to request and establish the best correlation between analytical results and illness also, the analyst can select the best method, free of interferences. The sample collection is of major importance in this case, especially when an immunological method is applied. It is well known that the human body is able to synthesize antibodies during the same period of time as sample pickup. It is possible for these antibodies to act as interfering species in analysis and to increase the uncertainty. As a result, an increased value of uncertainty may be recorded when a tourniquet is put on different places around the arm for blood sample collection. It is also important to know the exact time of day a sample has been taken. 

The power of Dalton s theory was appreciated by Thomas Thomson, of the Edinburgh and then Glasgow medical schools, who highlighted it in the third edition (1807) of his famous textbook, A System of Chemistry and who then did experiments to confirm that combination really did take place in the simple ratios Dalton had predicted. He convinced William Hyde Wollaston, one of the most eminent analysts of his day (known as The Pope because he was believed infallible) whose analyses of the various oxalates, published with Thomson s in the Royal Society s Philosophical Transactions (1808), confirmed Dalton s laws of chemical composition. Meanwhile, Thomson s book was translated into French and finally, Dalton himself published his theory in his New System of Chemical Philosophy, part 1 of which appeared in Manchester in 1808. Most of the volume is concerned with heat and the atomic theory occupies only the last few pages. We might have been able to follow his thinking more closely if the Lit Phil had not been bombed in World War II, and most of its records destroyed. 

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