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<p class=MsoNormal><span class=SpellE><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Histotechs</span></font></span><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>;<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>84 PACKETS SENT---AND A BIG STEP TAKENI One of those muscle
and nerve packet going out all over has landed in <span class=GramE>a<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span><span class=SpellE>neuropathologist’s</span></span>
hands and the good doctor is now studying the methods in his lab. He says he is
getting good results. He has given me a wonderful lift with his acceptance of
those methods for their actual study as possible inclusions in his lab’s
patient care. He also wrote some positive statements about the methods and the
means of communicating them.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>I know
<span class=GramE>the<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>home</span>-made
videos are a bit crude, but I guess they do manage to communicate the How <span
class=SpellE>To’s</span> of the many improvements to muscle and nerve
biopsy technique presented in them..<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>
</span>Folks, I’ve tried to say this before---and I don’t want to
be tiresome---I don’t want people to press DELETE the moment they see my
name on the <span class=SpellE>histonet</span>----but being aware of better
ways to do things---especially when the things done are life and death patient
services---and shrugging them off with a “Well, that’s how he does
it, but it isn’t the way I do it!”<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span><span class=GramE>is</span> a big NO <span
class=SpellE>NO</span> in my belief system.<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>I automatically included, in my
processing of patient tissues, ANY improvement in procedure, whether it was
easier or harder or more expensive to do, or whatever!! I have been worried
about the fate of these methods.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>I
know we <span class=SpellE>histotechs</span> don’t usually have the
authority to schedule retraining time when new methods come along, nor could they
usually just up and buy new equipment for new procedures.<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>I was extraordinarily fortunate to work
for Dr. <span class=SpellE>D’Agostino</span>.<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>I ordered any supplies or equipment
needed by each improvement as it came along, no questions asked. It did take
some time for the big break-through cases to come along, but then, all was
well.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>I was patiently reminded,
sometimes, that I was taking more than the usual time to do biopsies. But the
comparative completeness of the information I dug out of the tissues eventually
helped to excuse me for the extra in-out time.<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>I always tried to keep the process time
to a minimum----it was quality and completeness first, and I just hoped the
clock would forgive me if I couldn’t do it this in the same time as the
mediocre <span class=GramE>studies .</span> I have heard from a few of you who
are giving the new methods a try. Please, I hope I’m not being hard
headed about this---but folks, shouldn’t EVERYONE, who is informed about
better procedures for of patient care, DO their enactments of those better
procedures?<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'>Please excuse this diatribe---on the next 23 messages on the
<span class=SpellE>Histonet</span>, I will perform <span class=SpellE>english</span>
music-hall songs and <span class=GramE>play<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>catchy</span> numbers on two spoons.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>georgecole@ev1.net <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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