Apart from such routine tasks as blood tests, the pathology department also performs tests to ensure that diagnoses are correct and that no unnecessary operations are performed.
主要的檢驗項目包括：血液、尿液及體液，由於設備齊全、檢驗人員素質高，檢驗結果均能協助醫師做正確的診斷。病理科還有一項工作，就是院內病患在手術時割除的部份，都要送到病理科做復檢，看醫師的診斷是否正確，以做為醫生工作成績的考核標準之一。