{"id":475267,"date":"2026-06-13T10:37:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-13T10:37:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/475267\/"},"modified":"2026-06-13T10:37:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-13T10:37:14","slug":"unsustainable-situation-drives-senior-lab-scientist-out-of-nz-hospitals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/475267\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Unsustainable situation\u2019 drives senior lab scientist out of NZ hospitals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Opinion: Terry Taylor has worked as a medical scientist in Dunedin Hospital\u2019s pathology laboratory for 33 years. He is a past president of the Institute of Medical Laboratory Science.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But despite being proud of the dedication and skills of his professional work colleagues and of being an \u2018Otago boy\u2019, the sorry state of his laboratory and that of other hospital laboratories has led him to resign to take up a more professionally satisfying position in Australia.<\/p>\n<p>\t\tSubscribe to continue reading<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center newspack-sign-in wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:13px\">Already have an account? <a href=\"#signin_modal\">Sign In<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Unlimited access Newsroom Pro articles<\/p>\n<p>Bonus subscription for a friend or family member<\/p>\n<p>Exclusive subscriber-only emails <\/p>\n<p>Access to post and read comments on articles<\/p>\n<p>A daily morning email of news and insights curated by Newsroom Pro editorial team<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newsroom.co.nz\/newsroom-pro-subscription\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Corporate subscriptions also available<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Opinion: Terry Taylor has worked as a medical scientist in Dunedin Hospital\u2019s pathology laboratory for 33 years. He&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":475268,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[8133,11220,266,134,1184,527,111,43,7439,139,69,2114,8780],"class_list":["post-475267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-analysis","tag-comment","tag-government","tag-health","tag-health-science","tag-healthcare","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newsroom-pro","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-opinion","tag-premium"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=475267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475267\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/475268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=475267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=475267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=475267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}