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<p class=MsoNormal><span class=GramE><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Folks, your response has</span></font></span><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> been
great.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>So far, I’ve sent out
50 Muscle and Nerve packets around the states and 14 to countries around the
world.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>I can’t help but wonder if these procedures will be
‘an interesting’ bunch of pages in the clutter of other such pages
gathering dust in a heap of papers,<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>
</span>or are some of these improvements getting on the line with <span
class=SpellE>histotechs</span> doing them in their muscle and nerve biopsies?<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>I’m not the pop quiz type----I’m the <span
class=SpellE>grandpop</span> quiz kind----excuse me---this keyboard did it.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>I will just leave this little cluster of words hanging----<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>For so many years chasing after ways to find possibly
life-saving information from nerve and muscle tissues, it became a stern rule
that any---that is ANY---improvement in the effectiveness of the search would
be adopted without regard for the comfort of old habits,<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>the relative
difficulty of the improved me, or the time it took to complete and adopt the improved
procedures, although I would, of course, work to ‘get going’ with
new, improved procedures.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>This became, please, pardon the purple prose<span
class=GramE>,<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>a</span> MORAL
IMPERATIVE.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>Processing a biopsy is
not a <span class=SpellE>histotech</span> doing his or her thing----it’s
a <span class=SpellE>histotech</span> doing everything to the nth degree with
the biopsy tissues for the good of the patient.<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>“Some people do it that way, some people do it this
way---ho hum<span class=GramE>”<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>
</span>No</span>.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>We ALL go ALL the
way ALL THE TIME searching though those bits of people.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Gad---an aria popped out----but that’s it, I
think----I’ve never seen a<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span><span
class=SpellE>histotech</span><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>
</span>become the darling of the paparazzi<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>---We wrestle in a lab with those
tricky tissues to make them yield their secrets—BUT when the <span
class=SpellE>neuropathologist</span> said to me, “We never would have
found this condition if you hadn’t done those procedures”, that
line from Gilbert and Sullivan played in my head: ”I wouldn’t trade
places with Admiral Nelson <span class=SpellE>hisself</span>, no matter who he
was a-<span class=SpellE>huggin</span>’ of at the moment.”.<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>.<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>
</span><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>No I realize I have sent packets out.<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>That’s it. What happens now is up
to all you <span class=SpellE>histotechs</span> out there. However, I
wouldn’t mind at all if an occasional word, now and then, would show up
on the <span class=SpellE>histonet</span> or on my e-mail about any of those
procedures from the packet being adopted in your labs.<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>
</span><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>I have more packets----they are waiting breathlessly to go
out to into the world.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>georgecole@ev1.net<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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