Completely hilarious! Joelle Weaver MAOM, HTL (ASCP) QIHC
> Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2013 20:01:51 -0500
> From: rsrichm...@gmail.com
> To: histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu
> Subject: [Histonet] Re: grossing tools
>
> Bruce Gapinsk HT (ASCP), Chief Histologist, Marin Medical
> Laboratories, PathGroup SF asks:
>
> >>Histonians, I'm sure we are not the only histology lab that deals with
> >>thick grossed specimens. Has anyone tried the new gross tools by Sakura? Or
> >>anything else that can cut ONE nickel thick. Tired of reprocessing.<<
>
> This grumpy old (74) pathologist would be happy to try them out,
> though I can cut freehand and almost never have a block reprocessed,
> but the skill eludes a lot of the young folks. Do you have a Web link
> for these tools?
>
> The problem would be getting a lab manager to spring for them. The
> Laboratory Manager's Handy-Dandy Guide to Making Life Hard for the
> Pathologist (I'm sure there is such a book, though I haven't actually
> seen one) specifies that grossing is a ritual requiring only a basic
> set of tools.
>
> One lab expected me to gross with an athame and chalice. I tried to
> explain to them that OSHA and the CAP would not permit me to gross
> skyclad.
>
> (You guys know I NEVER exaggerate.)
>
> Bob Richmond
> Samurai Pathologist
> Maryville TN
>
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