[Histonet] Re: Gross Photography

[Horn, Hazel V]

We are fortunate to have a wonderful gross photography set up.   Our
residents take many pictures.   The photos are downloaded and kept in
our LIS system.   One nice thing for taking photos is for the mapping of
bone tumors.  

Hazel Horn
Hazel Horn, HT/HTL (ASCP)
Supervisor of Histology
Arkansas Children's Hospital
1 Children's Way    Slot 820
Little Rock, AR   72202
 
phone   501.364.4240
fax        501.364.3155
 
visit us on the web at:    www.archildrens.org
 
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From: histonet-bounces <@t> lists.utsouthwestern.edu
[mailto:histonet-bounces <@t> lists.utsouthwestern.edu] On Behalf Of Robert
Richmond
Sent: Saturday, April 18, 2009 8:17 AM
To: histonet <@t> lists.utsouthwestern.edu
Subject: [Histonet] Re: Gross Photography

In my travels as a locum tenens pathologist, I've never seen a
pathology service with functioning gross photography, and most of the
pathologists I've worked with have been quite hostile to the idea.
When a surgeon requests a gross photograph, either an ancient Polaroid
camera is hauled out of a forgotten drawer and used to take an
out-of-focus print, or else somebody calls Public Relations and half
an hour later a dresser-for-successer comes click-click-clicking into
the lab in her high heels, goes eeeeyyewww, and takes an out-of-focus
photograph using high-end equipment.

I've done a fair amount of digital gross photography, using my own
camera. Very useful for tumor conferences and the like.

Yesterday I shot the photographic protocol for a hospital's tumor
board, photographing through the microscope's ocular with my Nikon
Coolpix.

Bob Richmond
Samurai Pathologist
Knoxville TN

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