For many, it's a chance to contribute in the medical field without having direct patient care, and that was the perfect combination for Maggie Becker, who got her undergrad at Ohio State and found that lab work was what she was interested in after getting her phlebotomy certification.

In one of the buildings on Mercy Health St. Rita's campus, lab scientists and assistants are hard at work, testing samples from patients from around the area. These workers use different lab equipment and methods to examine those samples for a variety of reasons - for example, looking for a type of disease - and talking with doctors about those results.