[Histonet] Can you lose your skill?

[Jackie.O'Connor <@t> abbott.com]

Petty Officer Deltour:
I've been a histotech since 1970.  My husband is a retired Navy Officer. I 
followed him all over the world for 28 years beginning in 1975.  I've 
worked a gamut of places from Florida to Hawaii, never being in one place 
more than 3 years (he spent a lot of time in Sigonella as well -  without 
me, however).  I've worked a variety of places from an abandoned 
toxicology research lab in Memphis to a 600+ bed hospital in Honolulu.  My 
skills increased with the learning experience presented at each facility. 
I've seen and done almost everything.  It's turned me into a pretty good 
troubleshooter, if I do say so myself.  I even took two years off to have 
our first two kids - but as you well know, on military pay - I needed to 
go back to work - I didn't lose my skills during that two year hiatus.  If 
you look at each new job as a learning experience instead of comparing 
this job to the last one, you'll be a happy histotech.  Try to figure out 
how you can improve something in this lab - and make that your legacy. 
Best of luck to you.

Jacqueline M. O'Connor HT(ASCP) and retired Navy wife
Abbott Laboratories
Global Pharmaceutical Research and Development
Discovery Chemotherapeutics





"Deltour, Douglas D.(HM2)" <DDDeltour <@t> sig.med.navy.mil>
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Hello everyone,
 
I have a kind of odd question for you. I would love to have all of the
experts and non-experts feedback. Let me start off by saying that I have
been a Histotech since 2000 when I graduated from the school at AFIP. I 
was
sent to a place that did 6000 cases a year. We also did special stains and
autopsies. I was working there for two years when I transferred to a place
that did 18,000 cases a year. Specials, autopsies, and immuno's. Now I am 
at
a place where I do 800 cases a year. Maybe 5 special stains a year and no
autopsies. I am supposed to be here for three years but I am trying to 
fight
it. I am telling everyone that I am losing my skills being here. The 
people
that control this place tell me otherwise. There is one pathologist here
right out of residency who will not confirm that my skills will erode. He 
is
right out of residency and would not know. Anyway do you think that my
complaint is a legitimate complaint. Can you lose your skills if not used?
If you have not noticed already I am in the military, Navy that is. I just
need to confirm that a Histotech can lose their skill if not used. I would
appreciate any feedback, advice. Thank you.

HM2(FMF) Douglas D. Deltour 
Naval Hospital Sigonella Italy 
Anatomic Pathology, Histology Supervisor (HT)
FROM US: 01139095564862 DSN: 624-4862 
FAX FROM US: 01139095564680 DSN: 624-4680

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