Color blind is not that you are blind
That you can’t see colors!

It’s it a specific color
It is a disease …

Where about 300 million people experienced
1 in every 12 men and 1 in 200 women

With color vision deficiency
You may ask, why?

Could you be one of those people ?
Know, are reasons’ why CAP and NYS inspectors

Seek out laboratories and demand that all
Microbiologist, hematologist and parasitologist

Get annually tested for “Color Blind”
It’s essential to distinguish specific shapes of … colors vital in laboratory as competency

I’ve written policies and procedures for “Color Blind testing” serving of outmost of importance

Competency is critical for patience care
As microscopic examinations takes place

Could be a gram stain, reading in other labs that utilizes a microscope as color-image are
… interpreted with unique skills

I double dare you not to believe me
… I don’t lie, neither should you!

Color blindness or color blind deficiency
… is a not a serious condition
… it is genetic disorder called “Color Vision”

It is passed to offsprings from parents
… where their eyes cones developed different

How? They way they see and perceive colors
Are different from others …

Color blindness people see red and green
In variance of colors …

Individual experiencing such have a hard time
Distinguishing between these two colors … and
The yellow and the blues …

Furthermore, the worst are people that
Can’t distinguish colors at all
… and shades of colors

In 1684 Turberville, called Tuberville method came up with a scientific method of evaluating
… color blindness

Where comparing color naming of objects by color blind in a specific-scientific method
… to those of healthy one’s

In 1837 Seebeck developed a test
Allowing individuals to freely

Pick colors to match it with a
Different sample …

In 1837, became more pronounced
It was a more elaborate and effective way

Here, it was the development of an extreme
… effect where, pseudo-iso-chromatic plates

Where colors spotted impregnated with symbols
That included shapes, colors, letters and numbers took place …

The spots has different types of colors
For the individual to be tested …

Finally, “Williams method” it simulates real life … events, in armed forces utilized

Why “Color Blind” test so important?
Laboratory competency testing with patients
… specimens’ viewing

That’s critical
You tell me, if is not!

Minerva A. Garcia, your Poet