[Histonet] Muscle and Nerve packets

[George Cole]

Folks, your response has been great.  So far, I've sent out 50 Muscle
and Nerve packets around the states and 14 to countries around the
world.
I can't help but wonder if these procedures will be 'an interesting'
bunch of pages in the clutter of other such pages gathering dust in a
heap of papers,  or are some of these improvements getting on the line
with histotechs doing them in their muscle and nerve biopsies?
I'm not the pop quiz type----I'm the grandpop quiz kind----excuse
me---this keyboard did it.
I will just leave this little cluster of words hanging----
For so many years chasing after ways to find possibly life-saving
information from nerve and muscle tissues, it became a stern rule that
any---that is ANY---improvement in the effectiveness of the search would
be adopted without regard for the comfort of old habits,     the
relative difficulty of the improved me, or the time it took to complete
and adopt the improved procedures, although I would, of course, work to
'get going' with new, improved procedures.
This became, please, pardon the purple prose,  a MORAL IMPERATIVE.
Processing a biopsy is not a histotech doing his or her thing----it's a
histotech doing everything to the nth degree with the biopsy tissues for
the good of the patient.  
"Some people do it that way, some people do it this way---ho hum"  No.
We ALL go ALL the way ALL THE TIME searching though those bits of
people.
Gad---an aria popped out----but that's it, I think----I've never seen a
histotech  become the darling of the paparazzi   ---We wrestle in a lab
with those tricky tissues to make them yield their secrets-BUT when the
neuropathologist said to me, "We never would have found this condition
if you hadn't done those procedures", that line from Gilbert and
Sullivan played in my head: "I wouldn't trade places with Admiral Nelson
hisself, no matter who he was a-huggin' of at the moment.".   .

No I realize I have sent packets out.  That's it. What happens now is up
to all you histotechs out there. However, I wouldn't mind at all if an
occasional word, now and then, would show up on the histonet or on my
e-mail about any of those procedures from the packet being adopted in
your labs.          
I have more packets----they are waiting breathlessly to go out to into
the world.
 georgecole <@t> ev1.net   
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