[Histonet] Re: H&E quality check

[Robert Richmond]

Well, I've worked in roughly 60 hospital and private lab pathology
services in my locum tenens career, and I've never seen a functioning
QA (or whatever they call it this year) program for H & E (or any
other stain) in a pathology lab. An occasional lab has the pathologist
fill out QA sheets telling them that the slides are wonderful -
invariably in such labs the slides are horrible. In most labs nobody
but the pathologist ever looks at a slide under a microscope.

A meaningful QA program would have a pathologist and a senior
histotechnologist review some of the day's production, during the
working day. I've always been ridiculed for suggesting it.

Bob Richmond
Samurai Pathologist
Knoxville TN