In my travels as a locum tenens pathologist, I've never seen a pathology service with functioning gross photography, and most of the pathologists I've worked with have been quite hostile to the idea. When a surgeon requests a gross photograph, either an ancient Polaroid camera is hauled out of a forgotten drawer and used to take an out-of-focus print, or else somebody calls Public Relations and half an hour later a dresser-for-successer comes click-click-clicking into the lab in her high heels, goes eeeeyyewww, and takes an out-of-focus photograph using high-end equipment.
I've done a fair amount of digital gross photography, using my own camera. Very useful for tumor conferences and the like. Yesterday I shot the photographic protocol for a hospital's tumor board, photographing through the microscope's ocular with my Nikon Coolpix. Bob Richmond Samurai Pathologist Knoxville TN _______________________________________________ Histonet mailing list Histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu http://lists.utsouthwestern.edu/mailman/listinfo/histonet
