With many thanks to wise histotechnologist – here is a holiday adaptation of “These Are a Few of My Favorite Things” for histology around the holidays.
This is Why I Think Histology’s Fun
An adaptation of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s
These Are A Few Of My Favorite Things
Fungus on toenails and whiskers on a nevus
Bright green cassettes and white woven gauze squares
Oriented skin ellipses tied up with strings
This is why I think histology’s fun
Cream colored colon and pilonidal cysts
Tonsils and appendix and bone marrows with clots
Sharp blades that shine as they slice through the block
This is why I think histology’s fun
When the part type
Needs to be changed
And the pathologist’s mad
I simply remember “Histology’s fun!” and then I don’t feel so bad!
Giemsa on pylori and silver on Candida
No need to change bed pans, we keep behind the scene
Diaminobenzidine and some fast red
This is why I think histology’s fun
When the breast case
Needs to be inked
And I’m out of black
I simply remember “Histology’s fun!” and then I don’t feel so bad!
Big scary bandsaw can cut up a femur
Trichromes and Gram stains and eosin with safranin
Tiny round cross sections of Fallopian tube
This is why I think histology’s fun
Techs in green scrub pants with blue nitrile gloves on
Paraffin that sticks to my nails and eyeglasses
Transparent Schiff’s reagent turning to pink
This is why I think histology’s fun
When the slide breaks
When my ice melts
And the coverslipper is jammed
I simply remember “Histology’s fun!” and then I don’t feel so bad!
