Here you will find out about types of careers available to the CLS graduate. As a medical laboratory scientist, you will analyze blood, urine, tissue or other body specimens - these test results play an important role in the detection, diagnosis and treatment of disease.
This is probably one of the most confusing things in our field. Even in a state like California, where NDs are licensed as medical providers and the term naturopathic doctor is protected by law, people with questionable training can call themselves naturopaths..
(on prescription): Seen on a prescription, q.d. (or qd) means one a day (from the Latin quaque die). The abbreviation is sometimes written without a period in capital letters as QD. However it is written, it is one of a number of hallowed abbreviations of Latin terms that have been traditionally used in prescriptions to specify the frequency with which medicines should be taken. Other examples include: 1  b.i.d. (bid or BID) is twice a day; b.i.d.. stands for bis in die (which means, in Latin, twice a day).  t.i.d. (or tid or TID) is three times a day ; t.i.d. stands for ter in die (in Latin, 3 times a day).