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As a second-year medical student, the chairman of pathology at my medical school came to lecture us on inflammation and repair. Among the first chapters in the hallowed Robbins textbook of pathology (which he contributed to both from his...

As I mentioned about 6 months ago, our practice has adopted the use of digital pathology. While it is "digital", it is simply, pathology. At least 80% of my caseload is now viewed on a monitor. The work is done with mouse rather than...

“It isn't knowledge that's making trouble, but the uses it's put to.” - Kurt Vonnegut As a resident, my chief of anatomic pathology, who was Mexican born and spoke perfect Spanglish told me, “Señor, you have to know the 3 Gs and the D...

My family moved from the Town of Cicero, Illinois to the Village of Riverside, Illinois in West Suburban Cook County when I was in the fifth grade. While I only had a few good friends at that time, the move came as a shock. I had my routines...

As a college student I was told pathologists would be replaced by flow cytometry As a medical student I was told pathologists would be replaced by gene chips As a pathology resident I was told pathologists would be replaced by PCR and...

Originally posted 18 February 2014 Like most boys, my father was my idol, my hero, like the Harry Chapin song goes, I wanted to grow up and be just like him. He worked hard and played harder.  He was a large man with a larger heart.  If...