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