[Histonet] Re: Formaldehyde - Carcinogen?

Tue Sep 25 10:49:09 CDT 2007

I don't know. Up in the main lab where we got everything including limbs. I enjoyed observing (sorry didn't actually do the cutting-up/grossing). I have learned so much. I believe it has helped me become a better tech. I don't just see bits of tissue in paraffin. I understand the whole process better including how various disease processes affect different organs. I was always particularly facinated whenever a Teratoma would come in. Interesting to see what happens when something goes wrong in the body. 
I do some grossing now once in a while, but it is only skin biopsies with the occasional excision. It gets really boring when you may have 100+ specimens and they are all the same thing. :p

Claire Ingles
UW Hospital & Clinics
Madison WI 

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Rene has privately advised me that cut-up = grossing on the other side
of the pond.
Whatever, both are as terms go, pretty gross.
Does anybody actually enjoy it?

Terry

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That's a great post to read first after getting back from an 1 hr 45
mins cut-up! :-)

Terry

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That is due to the fact that most pathologists don't due grossing beyond
their Pathology Internship. Every path that I know has a rare exposure
to formalin. It's the PA's, dieners and techs that are exposed.  Just my
2 cents no flaming please I am sensitive. :)

Cheri Miller HT ASCP
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Physicians Laboratory Services, Inc.
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Formalin.
Psychiatrists.

Terry

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"To date there has been no information published to suggest that
pathologists' causes of death are different from those of other American
physicians."

Over here (UK) pathologists have the second highest suicide rate. This
suggests that they haven't had time to get the long term effects of
formalin:-)

Terry - equally pickled.

Terry was it the formalin that caused you to be so 'pickled' or another
type of fixative? Who has the highest suicide rate? I don't actually
know of any Pathologists that has committed suicide, only a few whose
suicide was professional.

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