[Histonet] Re: grossing tools

[O'Donnell, Bill]

The book exists - I've seen it. I think it was written by some guy who
gives management seminars. But it mysteriously vanished - probably taken
by aliens to de-evolutionize their home planet. That's my theory. 

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Subject: [Histonet] Re: grossing tools

Bruce Gapinsk HT (ASCP), Chief Histologist, Marin Medical Laboratories,
PathGroup SF asks:

>>Histonians, I'm sure we are not the only histology lab that deals with

>>thick grossed specimens. Has anyone tried the new gross tools by 
>>Sakura? Or anything else that can cut ONE nickel thick. Tired of 
>>reprocessing.<<

This grumpy old (74) pathologist would be happy to try them out, though
I can cut freehand and almost never have a block reprocessed, but the
skill eludes a lot of the young folks. Do you have a Web link for these
tools?

The problem would be getting a lab manager to spring for them. The
Laboratory Manager's Handy-Dandy Guide to Making Life Hard for the
Pathologist (I'm sure  there is such a book, though I haven't actually
seen one) specifies that grossing is a ritual requiring only a basic set
of tools.

One lab expected me to gross with an athame and chalice. I tried to
explain to them that OSHA and the CAP would not permit me to gross
skyclad.

(You guys know I NEVER exaggerate.)

Bob Richmond
Samurai Pathologist
Maryville TN

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