Ditto on what Amos said. Histotechnology has been the ------ child of the laboratory forever. What other profession in medicine can you be on the street one day and the next be practicing histology in a lab? I've worked with people in the past that didn't know the difference between tissue and kleenex yet they were cutting sections in the lab and had name tags on saying they were histochnologists.
Larry A. Woody Seattle, Wa. ________________________________ From: Amos Brooks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu" <histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu> Sent: Tuesday, November 4, 2008 4:39:51 PM Subject: [Histonet] ASCP HT maintenance fees Hi, I don't mean to be the fly in the ointment here, but in the words of Janet Jackson "What have you done for me lately?". It's a long standing joke among sticker collectors that aside from the certification the sticker is all you really get from the society. Where was the ASCP when NYS decided to pass that whacky law causing histotechs basically to have to be medtechs? The legislation seemed to actually take even them by surprise. There was little warning that this was going to happen. The main school for histology (SUNY Cobleskill) actually closed for a while after this. The proper thing for an advocate for histotechnology woule be to inform the profession of upcoming changes. Help those affected, and certainly make sure the educational requirements are fully lined up prior to the final passage of the laws. That is if they were paying attention. Where was ASCP? Worrying about medtechs perhaps. To my eye ASCP has much less interest in histotechnology (after certification) than histotechnology has in the ASCP. Just an observation, Amos Message: 12 Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2008 08:23:02 -0700 From: "Patsy Ruegg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: RE: [Histonet] ASCP HT maintenance fees To: "'R C'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "'Podawiltz, Thomas'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" One of the benefits of ASCP membership is to support their efforts to fight for the medical technology profession in local and national legislation. With shortages, licensure, billing and all sorts of political issues that affect our lives we need someone to be working for us. CAP and CLIA does not do much for HT's since they still do not even require that a certified HT be doing the job. I get reports almost daily on what ASCP is doing for us and I support it by paying my membership dues. Patsy Patsy Ruegg, HT(ASCP)QIHC IHCtech 12635 Montview Blvd. #215 Aurora, CO 80045 720-859-4060 fax 720-859-4110 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.ihctech.net www.ihcrg.org _______________________________________________ Histonet mailing list Histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu http://lists.utsouthwestern.edu/mailman/listinfo/histonet _______________________________________________ Histonet mailing list Histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu http://lists.utsouthwestern.edu/mailman/listinfo/histonet