Humor
My Director of Anatomic Pathology during the course of my residency was a Mexican-born pediatric and neuropathologist who spoke perfect Spanglish with a bunch of last names and some with hyphens. She was a great person and a great morphologist....
A pathologist is a physician who examines tissues, checks the accuracy of lab tests and interprets the results in order to facilitate a patient's diagnosis and treatment. A meteorologist as a person with specialized education who uses...
College of American Pathologists Notably Absent from Choosing Wisely
I recalled sharing news a couple of years ago about ASCP and the ABIM Foundation partnering together for something called "Choosing Wisely" and thought I would check in to see what this site consisted of now. I think the addition of...
The clock on the car dashboard read “2:22”. It was Saturday afternoon in Shanghai, having left Charlotte, NC at 7 AM the day before. The trip thus far could not have gone any better. A short 14 hour flight from Chicago over the North...
Mike “Lala” Jankovic stood less than 5 feet tall with dark wavy hair and thick sideburns and continual 3-day beard growth it seemed. He was sort of a mix of Louie DePalma and Latka Gravas from the sitcom Taxi that was on television about...
I recently came across a blog post on KevinMD entitled “Patients are not customers. Here are 6 reasons why” written by Dr. Shirie Leng, an anesthesiologist in Massachusetts. She introduces the post comparing how we purchase goods and...
