[Histonet] On the lighter side...

[Michael Ann Jones]

25 years, ("what¹s that in micron¹s?²) Bernice, you are too funny!!
(lots of tenure here . . .lotsa brain cells)
Michael Ann Jones, HT (ASCP)
Histology Manager
Metropath
7444 W. Alaska Dr. #250
Lakewood, CO 80226
303.634.2511
Mjones <@t> metropath.com




On 8/11/14, 5:17 AM, "Edwards, Richard" <ree3 <@t> leicester.ac.uk> wrote:

>Sniffed my  first formalin and  saw  first post-mortem November 1965.
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>                  Richard  Edwards
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>                       Leicester   U.K.
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: histonet-bounces <@t> lists.utsouthwestern.edu
>[mailto:histonet-bounces <@t> lists.utsouthwestern.edu] On Behalf Of Morken,
>Timothy
>Sent: 08 August 2014 19:26
>To: 'Douglas Porter'; histonet <@t> lists.utsouthwestern.edu
>Subject: RE: [Histonet] On the lighter side...
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>Wow, I feel like a newbie! 28 years, registered. HT 13663, 1988, HTL
>1369, 1992. Electron Microscopy Technologist, #604, 1982.
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>Like most, I never heard of "histology" until I walked into a hospital
>lab on my first day as  an EM tech. I had seen slides made in college,
>but no one ever mentioned it could be an actual profession. I was more
>taken with the electron microscope, and there was (is) a 2-year program
>at the community college in the town I grew up in (Delta College,
>Stockton, CA). So AFTER getting a BA in Zoology, I went there to get a
>marketable skill. At that time EM was still used for tumor dx, so when I
>started it was about half tumor, half kidney. I was lucky enough to get
>involved in histology and set up the IHC lab at the small community
>hospital I worked at (as an EM tech) and so ended up phasing myself
>almost out of an EM job. The IHC took over all the tumor dx from EM.
>Later I left EM altogether and did IHC exclusively for 15 years. But,
>like most, I learned Histotechnology on the job but was lucky enough to
>work for a pathologist who believed in developing his techs - to the
>point of paying for meetings out of his own pocket. Only now do I know
>how fortunate I was to work for someone like that. Because of him we had
>developed a culture in the small histo lab (4 men!!) of learning. We
>studied together one night a week for the HT exam and all passed (and the
>practical!). Again, that was a fortunate experience, not very often seen
>in labs. 
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>Tim Morken
>Supervisor, Histology, Electron Microscopy and Neuromuscular Special
>Studies UC San Francisco Medical Center San Francisco, CA
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: histonet-bounces <@t> lists.utsouthwestern.edu
>[mailto:histonet-bounces <@t> lists.utsouthwestern.edu] On Behalf Of Douglas
>Porter
>Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2014 11:39 AM
>To: histonet <@t> lists.utsouthwestern.edu
>Subject: [Histonet] On the lighter side...
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>How long have you been a registered histotech?  36 years here.  You???
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>Douglas A. Porter, HT (ASCP)
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