Anita Dudley, Providence Hospital, Mobile Alabama asks: >>Just wondering what others were doing with colon [biopsies, endometrial >>biopsies], ECC's. Do you use one slide or cut 2 to 3 slides per block? Lungs >>and livers too. We are thinking of going to one slide.<<
Do your pathologists have any input into this decision? (Often we don't.) I've worked on a large number of pathology services, and I take what I can get. Currently I'm getting one short ribbon on one slide. We've probably lost an account lately because of this curtailed examination. All of the cases you and others have mentioned should get at least two slides, preferably with two ribbons on a slide, plus whatever routine special stains the specimen requires. It's better for pathologists to have some input, given that we're the actual users of the slides, but we're pretty far down the management food chain. Bob Richmond Samurai Pathologist Knoxville TN _______________________________________________ Histonet mailing list Histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu http://lists.utsouthwestern.edu/mailman/listinfo/histonet
