Please don't take it personally. If we are trying our best to meet our own high expectations then we do not have to worry. I believe that most of us do what Robert expects. This is supported by my experiences at the recent NSH meeting in Birmingham Alabama. I was privileged to meet some of the most dedicated professionals around and believe that our profession is heading in the right direction.
Robert's comments should be heeded and pondered. I definitely did. Regards Tony Henwood JP, MSc, BAppSc, GradDipSysAnalys, CT(ASC) Laboratory Manager & Senior Scientist Tel: 612 9845 3306 Fax: 612 9845 3318 the children's hospital at westmead Cnr Hawkesbury Road and Hainsworth Street, Westmead Locked Bag 4001, Westmead NSW 2145, AUSTRALIA -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of [email protected] Sent: Thursday, 28 January 2010 2:53 AM To: Robert Richmond Cc: [email protected]; [email protected] Subject: Re: [Histonet] Re: Diff-Quik I'm going to have to agree with Cheryl on the comment. This may be your experience but I can tell you my techs always look at their stains before they send it on to the Pathologist. It is a requirement that they understand what they are looking at in order to know if it worked. Each of them are also trained to know all tissues microscopically and all stain components microscopically. That is after all the purpose of being a Histologist. I am going out on a limb here and I normally don't, but you are digging yourself in to a rather rude hole to insult so many professional Histologist. Just saying............. Kim Donadio Pathology Supervisor Baptist Hospital 1000 W Moreno St. Pensacola FL 32501 Phone (850) 469-7718 Fax (850) 434-4996 Robert Richmond <[email protected]> Sent by: [email protected] 01/26/2010 07:38 PM To "[email protected]" <[email protected]> cc Subject [Histonet] Re: Diff-Quik I sort of apologize for this ill-natured comment, which long-term readers of Histonet know I've made before. I do locum tenens work, mostly in rather small pathology services - I've worked in perhaps 60 of them in my life. Only rarely do I observe that a histotech ever looks at a slide. I've just acquired a new client with particularly difficult slides. The tech doesn't even have a microscope. The more quality assurance paperwork I have to do, the worse the slides. The lack of feedback from pathologist to technologist is a really widespread and serious problem. Most pathologists are completely unwilling to take the time to do it, and the usage has never established itself. It would be much easier if we had double headed microscopes, which seem to be prohibited in small pathology services. Did Edwards Deming live in vain? Bob Richmond Samurai Pathologist Knoxville TN ************************************* On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 9:03 AM, Cheri Miller <[email protected]> wrote: > Every slide I stain, special stains, IHC or otherwise I check under > the scope...I have taught all my techs to do the same, other than batches of H&E and then we check the 1st slide in each rack. I know this to be a common procedure with many histology professionals. The attitude can be left in your lab please. Thank you > > Cheryl Miller HT ASCP CM > Histology Supervisor > Physicians Laboratory Services > Omaha, NE. 402 731 4148 > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Robert Richmond > Sent: Monday, January 25, 2010 7:50 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [Histonet] Re: Diff-Quik > > Thanks, John Kiernan, for your explanation of Romanovsky stains. > > "Diff-Quik" (please note the spelling) is the trademarked name of a > staining sequence consisting of a fixative, eosin (Diff-Quik I), and > an azure (Diff-Quik II), done in that order in three separate > containers. I'm not sure who the trademark presently belongs to - it > seems to change with the phases of the Moon. > > There are a number of generic equivalents, which in my personal > experience all work as well as trademark Diff-Quik. For most ordinary > pathology services, it isn't worthwhile to try to brew your own. > > I don't think I've seen bone marrow stained with such a sequence. > Proper staining of bone marrows requires that the histotechnologist > examine the slides under a microscope, a practice too many find > abhorrent. > > Bob Richmond > Samurai Pathologist > Knoxville TN _______________________________________________ Histonet mailing list [email protected] http://lists.utsouthwestern.edu/mailman/listinfo/histonet ----------------------------------------- All electronic data transmissions originating from or sent to Baptist Health Care Corporation (BHC) are subject to monitoring. This message along with any attached data, are the confidential and proprietary communications of BHC and are intended to be received only by the individual or individuals to whom the message has been addressed. 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