Patients should not be given formalin. You can transfer the specimen to 70%
alcohol, and hope they don't drink it.
If you're in one of those unusual pathology services where photography is
permitted, I wonder if you could offer the patient a photograph of the
specimen by e-mail.
Bob Richmond
Samu
I will take the other side of this argument.
If you go to the Dentist and he extracts a tooth, it is the usual procedure
that he gives it to you.
After all it is "your tooth".
Like wise, it's your gall bladder. The legal department should understand that
it is your
personal property and the m
I suggest that path labs start a discussion with Risk Management team and
lawyers to get advice on the tease of tissues to patients.
The uterus in the landfill or the gallbladder at school “show and tell” will be
sure to get your legal department on edge and the lab’s name in the local paper.
Whe
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It's all fun and games until someone finds a uterus in a landfill.
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We no longer release any tissue to a patient that
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From: Nancy Schmitt
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Subject: [Histonet] release of body parts
Hello-
We are seeing a bit more of patients that are requesting to take their body
parts with them (uterus, POC, etc);
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Hello-
We are seeing a bit more of patients that are requesting to take their body
parts with them (uterus, POC, etc); I am talking home - not the funeral home.
Are you using a release of body parts form to fill out with the patient?
Are you draining off the formalin, or sending in formalin with
