[Histonet] Re: Flames at embedding centers

[Mark Turner]

We had a special "clean" counter we used for pizza on a  regular basis.  

I worked with a pathologist who refused to wear gloves and would gross colons bare-handed.  Guy is still alive and kicking at 85!

In the very old days, we used carbon tetrachloride to dehydrate in the open tissue processor (Technicon).  Not going to say anything at all about disposal....

Mark Turner,  Ph.D., HT(ASCP)QIHC
Manager, Histology/IHC
 

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To: Blazek, Linda; Histonet <@t> lists.utsouthwestern.edu
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Okay, since we are confessing.........
When I was a student in histology school, we did the potluck thing IN THE LAB! I mean, ALL the food was laid out on a back counter................................

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Since the break room was right across the hall from the histology lab, we use to clear off a counter to put all the food for our potlucks.

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To: James Watson; 'Bob Richmond'; Histonet <@t> lists.utsouthwestern.edu
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<sigh> the good old days....................................

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From: histonet-bounces <@t> lists.utsouthwestern.edu [mailto:histonet-bounces <@t> lists.utsouthwestern.edu] On Behalf Of James Watson
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Subject: RE: [Histonet] Re: Flames at embedding centers

How about the person in the 1970's coverslipping with an open dish of xylene at AFIP and someone at the other end of the stain line decolorizing Brown and Brenn stains with acetone/ether in the sink; then the acetone/ether fumes migrating across the stain line to the cigarette and having the whole counter and wall catch fire.

James Watson HT  ASCP
GNF  Genomics Institute of the Novartis Research Foundation Scientific Technical Leader II, Histology Tel    858-332-4647 Fax   858-812-1915 jwatson <@t> gnf.org

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Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2014 10:36 AM
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Subject: [Histonet] Re: Flames at embedding centers

Remembering histotechnologists at Johns Hopkins in the 1960s smoking cigarettes while hand-staining slides in rows of large Stender dishes, including a dish with 20% picric acid in acetone, used to remove formalin pigment (since buffering formalin wasn't permitted way back then).

Bob Richmond
Samurai Pathologist
Maryville TN
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