https://tissuepathology.com Educational and informative Thu, 11 Jun 2026 18:00:28 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://tissuepathology.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/cropped-Portrait_640x960px-32x32.png https://tissuepathology.com 32 32 https://tissuepathology.com/2026/06/11/asco-now-and-then/ Thu, 11 Jun 2026 18:00:28 +0000 https://tissuepathology.com/?p=24484 In medical school I drove a cab at night to make ends meet. I rented the medallion from a guy for $50 and kept the difference I made. The Army paid me $692 a month stipend on the Health Professions Scholarship and the studio apartment in downtown Chicago was $1000/month. I wasshort over $300 a […]

The post ASCO: Now and Then first appeared on Tissuepathology.com.]]> https://tissuepathology.com/2026/04/21/the-chair/ Tue, 21 Apr 2026 14:22:18 +0000 https://tissuepathology.com/?p=24367 Next month will be my 30th medical school reunion. Not sure where the past 30 years have gone and can tell you little about what happened during the 4 years of medical school other than what happened in medical school. Clinton’s first term is a blur. My parents sold our childhood home. My father sold […]

The post The Chair first appeared on Tissuepathology.com.]]> https://tissuepathology.com/2024/09/12/what-is-going-on-in-pathology/ Thu, 12 Sep 2024 14:12:47 +0000 https://tissuepathology.com/?p=23079 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 published research and direct writing of chapters). He was the MD PhD research pathologist who was […]

The post What is Going On in Pathology? first appeared on Tissuepathology.com.]]> https://tissuepathology.com/2023/12/19/digital-pathology-is-just-pathology/ Tue, 19 Dec 2023 15:52:41 +0000 https://tissuepathology.com/?p=22494 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 microscope. The cases are images rather than glass slides (admittedly of […]

The post Digital pathology is just pathology first appeared on Tissuepathology.com.]]> https://tissuepathology.com/2023/11/16/pathologists-shortages-and-artificial-intelligence/ Thu, 16 Nov 2023 16:23:56 +0000 https://tissuepathology.com/?p=22404 “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 – GI, Gyn, GU and Derm.” She was referring to gastrointestinal, […]

The post Pathologists Shortages and Artificial Intelligence first appeared on Tissuepathology.com.]]> https://tissuepathology.com/2022/09/15/mr-h-and-the-value-of-mentorship/ Thu, 15 Sep 2022 14:40:40 +0000 https://tissuepathology.com/?p=21388 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 down, knew short cuts to school, crossing […]

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