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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 few months ago a couple of colleagues and I were enjoying dinner at an upscale restaurant. Our server Amy, a very pleasant, hard-working young woman, tended our table without flaw. During dinner, the three of us learned how goal-oriented she...

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...

Blogs, like blog readers, come and go.  It is part of the nature of creating blogs and reading blogs. Writing a blog consumes resources for the blogger and readers take time to read and comment or share on what one writes if it strikes a chord...

Jeanne Marie Laskas of The Wall Street Journal recently published an excellent story about Dr. Bennet Omalu, the neuropathologist who published “Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy in a National Football League Player" and the NFL's response to...

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