[Histonet] Re: grossing tools

[joelle weaver]

Completely hilarious!   Joelle Weaver MAOM, HTL (ASCP) QIHC
 > Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2013 20:01:51 -0500
> From: rsrichmond <@t> gmail.com
> To: histonet <@t> lists.utsouthwestern.edu
> Subject: [Histonet] Re: grossing tools
> 
> Bruce Gapinsk HT (ASCP), Chief Histologist, Marin Medical
> Laboratories, PathGroup SF asks:
> 
> >>Histonians, I'm sure we are not the only histology lab that deals with thick grossed specimens. Has anyone tried the new gross tools by Sakura? Or anything else that can cut ONE nickel thick. Tired of reprocessing.<<
> 
> This grumpy old (74) pathologist would be happy to try them out,
> though I can cut freehand and almost never have a block reprocessed,
> but the skill eludes a lot of the young folks. Do you have a Web link
> for these tools?
> 
> The problem would be getting a lab manager to spring for them. The
> Laboratory Manager's Handy-Dandy Guide to Making Life Hard for the
> Pathologist (I'm sure  there is such a book, though I haven't actually
> seen one) specifies that grossing is a ritual requiring only a basic
> set of tools.
> 
> One lab expected me to gross with an athame and chalice. I tried to
> explain to them that OSHA and the CAP would not permit me to gross
> skyclad.
> 
> (You guys know I NEVER exaggerate.)
> 
> Bob Richmond
> Samurai Pathologist
> Maryville TN
> 
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