[Histonet] Giving Specimens to Patients

Smith Wanda Wanda.Smith <@t> HCAhealthcare.com
Fri Apr 21 12:28:22 CDT 2006


Happy Friday Histonet,
We have aways given gallstones and foreign bodies to patients if they request them, however, I have a patient that wants his rib back that was removed in surgery.    It just looks like a rib fracture, no atypia.  Our Pathologist don't recommend this, but it is a call from the hospital legal department and I can't get in touch with them today.  What is the practice everyone uses for giving/not giving patient's their specimens in formalin?
Thanks,
Wanda


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