Nothing is black and white. Perhaps exceptions are in order where the tech only does one specimen type. Perhaps. But not where techs do a lot more. There are gross techs out there doing colons, mastectomies etc. This is where big trouble brews. This is where people are not adequately trained, by NAACLS standards. CLIA '88 is the problem, not the tech. CLIA is over 20 years old, and at that time PA's were fairly new on the scene and in short supply. That is not the case today. It is time to raise the bar and improve patient care. There are no valid excuses. Today, this is no more than financial greed that accounts for misuse of personnel.
Sent from my Windows Phone From: Ingles Claire Sent: 4/25/2012 10:43 AM To: Rene J Buesa; Joanne Clark; Davide Costanzo Cc: histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu Subject: RE: [Histonet] RE: Qualifications for grossing You can reprocess, recut, and restain, but never re-gross. I for one also gross, but only skin. And yes, I DO know how to gross an alopecia specimen. Claire ________________________________ From: histonet-boun...@lists.utsouthwestern.edu on behalf of Rene J Buesa Sent: Wed 4/25/2012 11:55 AM To: Joanne Clark; Davide Costanzo Cc: histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu Subject: Re: [Histonet] RE: Qualifications for grossing For what little it may mean, I wholeheartly agree with Davice Costanzo e-mail. I completely agree with him. In the same way the economic situation we are now was caused by greed, that is the motor guiding those who, to just save money, let a histotech (ologist) to do grossing. Grossing,, especially large complex specimens, is the fundamental initial task in any complex diagnosis. The PA is the one who SELECTS what is going to be processed and used for diagnosis. IF some part of the specimen is not submitted as the result of ignorance caused by poor training, the worst thing could happen, namely, a FALSE NEGATIVE --- On Wed, 4/25/12, Davide Costanzo <pathloc...@gmail.com> wrote: _______________________________________________ Histonet mailing list Histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu http://lists.utsouthwestern.edu/mailman/listinfo/histonet