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just curious, since I worked on something with microscopes, what exactly do you do in clinical microscopy?

inside hospital, mainly check up on people's urine samples, see if the urine is normal, sometimes fecal samples, and very rarely CSF (spinal fluid) samples

80% of the samples will be urine, 18% will be fecal, and 2% of it would be CSF, 

and by checking up the samples, i mean checking their consistency, formation, and color, after which we use a "urine strip", which we dip onto the urine, after about a minute we read it and know the grading of urine based on color change in strip

(i.e, urobilinogen is normally, normal, while glucose may change color to brown, which indicates that said person is, either drinking allot of sugary-drinks, or has a kidney problem, either one could have happened)

after strip checking, we spin the tube in a centrifuge, and read it in the microscope, checking if all is well, and if the strip reading was accurate (since there was a case where, we saw a fecal-parasite in the urine sample, which would indicate that, that urine sample was not collected properly, and could be the reason why the strip was giving false-positive on some results)

pretty much what we do <inside hospital>

outside hospital...we throw the god damn book away! we study the book

interesting to see how many different tests you do with one sample (color, chemical constituency, consistency).
Kinda reminds me of those ancient Greeks who used to taste urine to see if it tasted honey-like to detect diabetes It is kinda like detective work where you try to get to the reason of why, for example, the color changes to brown like you said.