[Histonet] Re: Clinical use of Co-path

Tue Jun 5 08:04:02 CDT 2007

All,
I started out with the technicons (4) and round cassettes and we did not
start with the "normal" cassettes until 1990 when we dumped them and got
the Shandon XP. Embedding was a paraffin dispensor,forceps warmer (I
still love them except for the flame throwing capabilities) and cold
plate with those embedding rings. In histo school we even had an
ultratechnicon (yuck)
Ah those memories.
Bernice

Bernice Frederick HTL (ASCP)
Northwestern University
Pathology Core Facility
710 N Fairbanks Court
Olson 8-421
Chicago,IL 60611
312-503-3723

-----Original Message-----
From: histonet-bounces <@t> lists.utsouthwestern.edu
[mailto:histonet-bounces <@t> lists.utsouthwestern.edu] On Behalf Of Chistine
Tambasco
Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2007 5:22 AM
To: mickie25 <@t> netzero.net; 'Horn, Hazel V'; 'Laurie Popp';
histonet <@t> lists.utsouthwestern.edu
Subject: Re: [Histonet] Re: Clinical use of Co-path

I can beat that- when I started in 1987 at my hospital they used the "L"

molds on a cold metal tray, pouring out of a pot, using a bunsen burner
to 
flame your foreceps. I had only seen that process in a book!.Needless to
say 
I have completely modernized my lab. We've come a long way!!
Memories.........
Christine Tambasco, HT (ASCP)
St. Mary's Hospital @ Amsterdam, New York
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mickie Johnson" <mickie25 <@t> netzero.net>
To: "'Horn, Hazel V'" <HornHV <@t> archildrens.org>; "'Laurie Popp'" 
<Laurie <@t> conxis.com>; <histonet <@t> lists.utsouthwestern.edu>
Sent: Monday, June 04, 2007 5:47 PM
Subject: RE: [Histonet] Re: Clinical use of Co-path

> Hi All,
>
> Buttons refer to the round (and sometimes square) metal cassettes with

> snap
> lids which were commonly used back in the mono and duo Technicon days.

> This
> was near the dinosaur era about 30 - 35 or so years ago. Later came 
> plastic
> cassettes and little metal molds made by Tissue Tek. I remember 
> interviewing
> for a job at the Los Angeles County General Hospital in 1973 and they 
> still
> used lead L-molds and had the days supply stacked up about two feet
high
> beside the embedding area. They used a heated pitcher to fill the
molds. I
> thought that was archaic in those days because there were peel-a-way
molds
> and the Tissue Tek embedding center which worked 'better'. Well, so
much 
> for
> stimulating that part of my memory.
>
> Mickie
>
> Mickie Johnson, B.S., HTL(ASCP)
> Mohs Histology Consulting Services, LLC
>  & Mohs Lab Staffing
> 2507 S. Manito Blvd.
> Spokane, WA 99203
> 509-954-7134
> Web: www.mohshistotemp.com & www.mohslabstaffing.com
> Email: mickie25 <@t> netzero.net
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: histonet-bounces <@t> lists.utsouthwestern.edu
> [mailto:histonet-bounces <@t> lists.utsouthwestern.edu] On Behalf Of Horn, 
> Hazel
> V
> Sent: Monday, June 04, 2007 3:11 PM
> To: Laurie Popp; histonet <@t> lists.utsouthwestern.edu
> Subject: RE: [Histonet] Re: Clinical use of Co-path
>
> The first clinical histology job I had one of the pathologist called
> cassettes, buttons.
> I had never heard that before.
>
> Hazel Horn
> Hazel Horn, HT/HTL (ASCP)
> Supervisor of Histology
> Arkansas Children's Hospital
> 800 Marshall    Slot 820
> Little Rock, AR   72202
>
> phone   501.364.4240
> fax        501.364.3912
>
> visit us on the web at:    www.archildrens.org
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: histonet-bounces <@t> lists.utsouthwestern.edu
> [mailto:histonet-bounces <@t> lists.utsouthwestern.edu] On Behalf Of Laurie
> Popp
> Sent: Monday, June 04, 2007 5:08 PM
> To: histonet <@t> lists.utsouthwestern.edu
> Subject: RE: [Histonet] Re: Clinical use of Co-path
>
> Buttoning for us is what the rest of the world calls grossing.
>
> Laurie
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Victor Tobias [mailto:victor <@t> pathology.washington.edu]
> Sent: Monday, June 04, 2007 9:35 AM
> To: Laurie Popp
> Subject: Re: [Histonet] Re: Clinical use of Co-path
>
> What is buttoning?
>
> Laurie Popp wrote:
>
>>Hi Mike,
>>
>>We use CoPath with barcode readers in our buttoning area at Mayo in
>>Rochester.  The only area in our lab that we are currently using
>>barcodes is our buttoning/gross description area.
>>
>>Laurie Popp
>>HT Candidate
>>Mayo Clinic
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Mike Pence
>>Sent: Friday, June 01, 2007 12:33 PM
>>To: histonet-bounces <@t> lists.utsouthwestern.edu
>>Subject: Clinical Use of CoPath
>>
>>
>>I was wondering if any of you in the Clinical World are using CoPath
as
>
>>your computer software and if you are, do you use it with barcode
>>readers?
>>
>>Thanks,
>>Mike
>>
>>
>>
>>
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