[Histonet] RE: GI, Uro, or Derm Path Lab Set Up

[Jay Lundgren]

    These pod labs are a curse and make it that much harder for HTs and HTLs
to get good paying, respected positions.  Hospitals and reference labs are
losing their biopsy workload to GI, GU, and Derm practices.

    Thomas is right.  Some of these consultants leave copies of their
credentials on the wall, and the practice then trains a histo monkey to turn
out the work for $10./hr.  When an inspection rolls around, oops, the HT is
"on vacation", and the histo monkey goes back to sweeping the floors or
filing, or whatever they were doing before, for the duration of the
inspection.

     Pod labs are based on pure greed, and are part of the reason for
spiralling health care costs in the U.S.  Any histopathology technician or
technologist that works for these consultants should realize that they are
cutting their own throat in the long run.  I notice that Timothy lists a
Masters of Health Administration, but NOT an HT or HTL.  Obviously he is
familiar with health care economics, but that's not the whole picture.

       Money should never be the primary motivation in the practice of
medicine.

                                                        Sincerely,
                                                            Jay A. Lundgren
MS, HTL (ASCP)

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