[Histonet] Amy's Calendar

2009-04-18 Thread Amy Reed
Hi I am creating a birthday calendar of all my friends and family. Can you please click on the link below to enter your birthday for me? http://www.birthdayalarm.com/bd2/85011951a953628167b1465146222c89627498d905 Thanks, Amy ___ Histonet mailing li

RE: [Histonet] Gross Photography

2009-04-18 Thread Weems, Joyce
We are moving in that direction for grossing - but not to keep everything. We will photograph the specimens so that the pathologist can see exactly what the PA is talking about - and import it into the LIS for viewing. It can be kept if necessary or discarded to save space. Joyce Weems Pathology

[Histonet] Gross Photography

2009-04-18 Thread Stephen Peters M.D.
I am in full agreement with Dr. Hamza's comments. I would like to add the impotance of gross photos of any specimens with the potential of medicoleagally issues. Breast implants, heart valves, any sponges or clamps inadvertently left inside of anyone ect. If you smell a lawyer take a picture..

[Histonet] Re: Gross Photography

2009-04-18 Thread Robert Richmond
In my travels as a locum tenens pathologist, I've never seen a pathology service with functioning gross photography, and most of the pathologists I've worked with have been quite hostile to the idea. When a surgeon requests a gross photograph, either an ancient Polaroid camera is hauled out of a fo

Re: [Histonet] Gross Photography

2009-04-18 Thread Joe Nocito
In government facilities, we are now banned from using flash drives, memory sticks, and other portable devices because some knucklehead at some military installation downloaded a nasty worm that affected many military computers (glad I wasn't that person, probably digging latrines in Iraq or Afg

RE: [Histonet] Gross Photography

2009-04-18 Thread Michael Mihalik
Just as another endorsement for this practice. Digital images seem so important to us that in our information system, a hyperlink to all images is included in case query. Hence, you can see the image at the same time you're reading all the other details of the case. It's just one more piece of i

RE: [Histonet] Gross Photography

2009-04-18 Thread kemlo
As a Biomedical Scientist I agree with you totally. One of the weaknesses of Biomedical scientists performing the 'grossing' is that the original evidence at dissection is lost to the Pathologist (that is until that Time Biomedical Scientists carry out the interpretation). Taking digital photos at