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What do the Chicago Cubs and Digital Pathology have in common? Both were suppose to happen this year. In Back to The Future II, the Chicago Cubs are supposed to win the World Series (against Miami). Instead, as we now know, the Cubs lost...

For those of us interested in digital pathology and pathology informatics as a whole, there is good news and bad news. The good news is we have a lot of meetings to network and discuss and share ideas with like-minded individuals and hear...

A couple of weeks ago I wrote a piece entitled “Pink to Black for Metastatic Breast Cancer” In summary, I went back 5 years to a previous post about my feelings about having dedicated breast cancer centers and how my views on the matter...

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...

Five years ago this month I wrote a piece entitled “Who Will be the Next Susan Goodman Komen? Or Nancy Goodman Brinker?” In that post, in part, I wrote “Speaking for myself I think it stems from the amount of funding put towards “breast...

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...