[Histonet] Clinical Lab vs. Antomical Pathology

[Lester Raff MD]

In my past career in a medium sized community hospital, both aspects of the lab were melded. But your issue with the frozen sections is a different one. Your director needs to meet with the O.R. or the infection control staff to find a way to allow you into the suite without violating any established protocols. If you are actually entering the O.R., you really should check to see if there is a policy that requires changing scrubs between O.R. area and the lab.


Lester Raff, MD
Uropartners Laboratory

Unrelated (and politally inclined) Blog post: http://www.chicagonow.com/downsize-maybe/2016/03/donald-trump-takes-on-artificial-intelligence/


-----Original Message-----
From: Heckford, Karen - SMMC-SF via Histonet [mailto:histonet at lists.utsouthwestern.edu] 
Sent: Monday, March 14, 2016 2:02 PM
To: histonet at lists.utsouthwestern.edu
Subject: [Histonet] Clinical Lab vs. Antomical Pathology

Good Morning,
I am curious to know how many Pathology Departments get lumped into Clinical Lab?  Do you wear the same working attire?  Our Pathology Department is really small.  We are required to go over the red lines in surgery to get to our Frozen Section Room numerous times a day.  They want to put us in the same Scrubs as the Clinical Lab which would not allow us to go over the red line.  The color of scrubs designates where you are from in the hospital. I for one do not know how to draw blood or even know what color top tube to use the CLS and phlebotomist do.  I only know only about Bone Marrows.  I am getting frustrated because to me Anatomical Pathology and Clinical Lab is two different species but they keep trying to treat us the same.  The only thing we share is the Lab Director and the Pathologists with Clinical Lab.  Feeling like I am not being heard.

Karen Heckford HT ASCP CE
Lead Histology Technician
St. Mary's Medical Center
450 Stanyan St.
San Francisco, Ca. 94117
415-668-1000 ext. 6167
karen.heckford at dignityhealth.org
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