The Relationship between Medical Technology and Biochemistry

How is Medical Technology related to Biochemistry?
It is important to study biochemistry if you want to be a medical technologist, because it is a basic knowledge required in a clinical practice. It is an important building block if you are going to study medicine. Biochemistry discusses the chemistry of various body portion like the blood, urine or any other fluids, since medical technologists analyze those to determine a disease. Biochemistry will help medical technologists understand physiological disorders and diseases.
In biochemistry we study about the cell it's parts, functions and chemical reactions, a medical technologists should understand the cell because it is the cell, which is being observed whenever someone is trying to figure out what is wrong with his or her health. There is what we call the “cbc” or complete blood count this is an evaluation of the red blood cells, white blood cells and platelets, if you know nothing about cells it will be impossible for you to figure out what is doing okay and what is not, if there is a difference or if something is wrong, if you don't know about all the basics then you can not perform your job as a medical technologists well. There are many other test associated with the cell so it is important to know about basic properties first before moving into much advance subjects so that you will have a guide or you can prepare yourself or at least you already have an idea on what you will do.
Also we study about carbohydrates, learning and understanding carbohydrates is essential so one medical technologists can monitor your blood's glucose level, to know if you have diabetes or not. Because high level of glucose is usually a sign of diabetes.
Proteins is also one of the lessons being taught in biochemistry Protein builds, maintains, and replaces the tissues in your body. The right amount of protein is important in our diets, for growth and repair, and also protein is a important building block in the body. Proteins can be antibodies, hormonal, enzymes and contractile proteins, so that is why I think it is a must that medical technologist know about it because it provides structural support and it is a defense against germs and infections.
Lipids is also being discussed, it is important to medical technology because it is the bulk of a living matter is made up of lipids, Lipids carry fat soluble vitamins and form special biomolecules. Lipid imbalance can lead to serious diseases like obesity and atherosclerosis. Break down of fatty acid produce energy, excessive breakdown cause ketosis, ketoacidosis, coma and death. And it is the job of a medical technologist to figure this out before things become worst.
Biochemistry talks about nucleic acids about dna and rna and etc. “Tests of DNA and RNA can be used to find most of the conversions found by cytogenetic tests. They can also find some conversions or change involving parts of chromosomes too small to be seen under a microscope with usual cytogenetic testing. This type of advanced testing can help classify some leukemias and, less often, some sarcomas and carcinomas. These tests are also useful after treatment to find small numbers of remaining leukemia cancer cells that may be missed under a microscope.” (cancer.org/treatment)
And I think the most related topic would be body fluids because Medical technologists are known to perform and analyze the results of complex scientific tests on blood and bodily fluids. One of the MAJOR subject a medtech student would encounter is hematology and I like to believe that biochemistry will serve as a guide for us to be prepared and have basic idea about that subject. When something is wrong with your blood, it can affect your total health. That is why it is important for a certain medtech to know or analyze so he/ she can deliver test results to a doctor or patient. And of course there is urine, urinalysis have, for hundreds of years, been one of the ways physicians have looked at health, studying urine might not be the best thing to do but it will all be worth it in the end. One should be accurate and analyze things well and I think everything will just be fine.
I know there is a lot more because after doing this I concluded that maybe biochemistry is one of medical technologies bestfriend because they are so much alike and it comes hand in hand. After doing this essay I realized that biochemistry is not just something you should be “easy easy” with because it will play a major role in those major subjects that doesn't sound easy, I'm glad this serves as an eye opener for me to do my best, listen and study really well.