If a test relies on having a functional machine to do the test for you, what reason is there to still learn how to do the test procedures when we can learn how to fix that machine so that it can still fulfill its duty when it fails?
The machine is there provide an answer to a higher question. Repairing that machine is important, but has little to do with the higher question.
As George stated, the need of the patient takes priority.
Additionally, even if the instrument can be repaired, Good Clinical Laboratory Guidelines require that in all cases equipment used should be demonstrably fit for purpose [1]. Depending on the extend of the repair, this ranges from a system suitability test to a full revalidation, and everything will have to be documented and approved.
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