[Histonet] RE: pathologists in the lab (shivers down the spine...) was "left handed microtome"

[kgrobert <@t> rci.rutgers.edu]

We're just a small research and teaching lab, but I have taught all sorts
of people about histology-from high-schoolers on up to full professors,
and every time my boss teaches his Toxicologic Pathology graduate course,
I get to teach the lab portion of it, where the students learn almost the
same thing-from animal necropsy all the way to staining.

So why isn't Histology part of Medical School/Pathology training?

Kathleen
Principal Lab Technician
Neurotoxicology Labs
Rutgers University




> "OOOHHH, there it is."
>
> Oh, the days in the lab... My favorite is the pathologist who came in late
> in the evening, opened the (already running) tissue processor and then
> spent
> two hours grossing, occasionally lobbing a cassette into the processor.
> Next
> day he (and all the other pathologists) was mad that his blocks were were
> two hours late - but soon he was hiding under his desk after he explained
> what he had done and all the other pathologists turned on him. Luckily,
> only
> his blocks were wrecked - he had lobbed them in while the processor was
> late
> in 100%, and did not fully dehydrate.
>
> It is truly amazing how ignorant most pathology residents are about basic
> histology procedures. Our lab director was enlightened and he made all the
> path residents spend  5 full days in the histo lab following the tissue
> through the entire process from accession to H&E, then specials, IHC, EM
> etc. They were chaffing by the second day, but by the 5th they were very,
> very appreciative of all the work that went on to get their slides and
> stains  done. It made life a lot easier later because they actually
> understand what was going on - and knew it was better to ask a tech what
> to
> do rather than  just blindly (arrogantly?) do what ever they felt like
> doing.
>
> Tim Morken
>
>
>
>
> I had a resident come in looking at at a block contemplating ordering a
> special stain.  She looked and looked at the top of the block where tissue
> is placed when grossing.
>
> Finally she said.  "I need to order a special on this block, but there
> isn't
> any more tissue."
>
> The tech took the block out of her hand and turned it over.
>
>
> "OOOHHH, there it is."
>
> Ross M Stapf
> Histopathology Manager
> Baylor University Medical Center
> 3500 Gaston Ave.
> Dallas, TX 75246
> 214-820-2465
>
> 214-820-4110 fax
> RossS <@t> baylorhealth.edu
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: histonet-bounces <@t> lists.utsouthwestern.edu
> [mailto:histonet-bounces <@t> lists.utsouthwestern.edu] On Behalf Of Fred
> Underwood
> Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2005 10:02 AM
> To: froyer <@t> bitstream.net; histonet <@t> lists.utsouthwestern.edu
> Subject: [BULK] - Re: [Histonet] Left-handed microtome.
>
>
> Or, perhaps the pathologist wanted sections from the opposite side of the
> block.
>
>>>> Ford Royer <froyer <@t> bitstream.net> 02/23/05 09:43AM >>>
> Jim Staruk wrote:
>
>>I remember an older histologist I met in Florida who had the
> microtome
>>facing away from him as he cut ribbons!
>>
>>Jim
>>
>>______________________
>>    Jim Staruk
>>Mass Histology Service
>>www.masshistology.com
>>
> Poor fellow... didn't know whether he was coming or going. Obviously due
> to
> all those years of unbridled exposure to xylene &
>
> formalin (or is that formaldehyde? ...I can never remember).
>
> ;-)  ~ Ford
> Ford M. Royer, MT(ASCP)
> Midwest Science Biocenter, Inc.
> Minneapolis, MN
> 800-745-4869
>
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