Kathy, What you mentioned to me is completely inconsistent with what I learned when I was in training.
ANYONE touching the tissue, especially taking it out of a specimen container and transferring it to a processing cassette, is by definition "GROSSING!" Gross description (dimensions, color, consistency, friability, etc etc etc) are all included. Every specimen should at least be getting a gross description, even if it isn't processed!!! (Example...foreign body, like a rock or a BB or a stinger from an arthropod, or any foreign object) I seriously question the validity of the quoted CAP standard by this person. Who out there manipulates tissue and doesnt have to describe it? Once again, this I would call a "glaring" example of the nebulous nature of CAP standards sometimes and the arbitrary interpretations that occur within the organization (and ones like it, depending upon the individual inspector or CAP staffer you talk to. YOU SEE....that is what is really the FACT in all of this discussion. It's all subjective....just like legal interpretations. So why does CAP get to be in the bully-pulpit, pedantically "pontificating" to the pathology community as to "HOW ITS "SUPPOSED" to be done?" Regards, AB _______________________________________________ Histonet mailing list Histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu http://lists.utsouthwestern.edu/mailman/listinfo/histonet