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Is this the Extinction of ESR, the Dinosaur Laboratory test?

Author: Sabrina Chetcuti, Marketing Manager, Benson Viscometers Ltd on behalf of Unassigned Independent Article

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Many laboratories have historically clung onto the ESR (Erythrocyte Sedimentation Rate) as a test that can confirm that patients are unwell.

 

Even though the science behind ESR is seen as dubious by laboratory scientists and many clinicians including Consultant Haematologists, the question that remains unanswered is why we are still requesting it?

 

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