Ray Koelling asked me: >>If the Samurai Pathologist is out there reading still; any idea over your >>career, about how many glass slides have you viewed under a microscope since >>the first? Your replies are always top-notch, entertaining and informative. >>And hope with each new job you don't have to show someone you can pass a test >>of which slide shows normal liver and which slide shows cirrhotic liver in >>your interview.<<
I really have no idea how many slides. In a normal year I sign out about 3,000 histology cases (remember I don't work full time) averaging maybe 3 slides per case. Generally I've gotten jobs, both private clients and agency clients, by recommendation. A number of years ago I was interviewed by a four-pathologist hospital group who handed me a tray of 20 slides with the necessary historical information, and was told that this was a set the group had collected, including very straightforward cases, cases with serious diagnostic pitfalls, and some cases they'd never been able to make a diagnosis on. They tried to make it a test of judgment rather than simple diagnostic skill. Told to take as much time as I needed. I guess I passed - by coincidence, the entire group chanced to break up very quickly, and an entirely different team took over. Bob Richmond Samurai Pathologist Knoxville TN _______________________________________________ Histonet mailing list Histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu http://lists.utsouthwestern.edu/mailman/listinfo/histonet
