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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...

Being a medical intern is easy. It’s like riding a bike. Except the bike is on fire, you’re on fire, everything is on fire and you’re in hell. It is for those who have done so, particularly if it was for no other reason than to check a...

At around 8 PM, on September 10, 2001 I was on one of the last LaGuardia - Reagan Delta shuttles to leave New York City. I was returning from a trip to the laboratory at the hospital located on the U.S. Military Academy base in West Point, NY....

For better or for worse the general public, what I will call the “patient public”, potential and existing consumers of healthcare services that may be delivered by pathologists and laboratories, do not know who we are. They do not know...

Later this year, a nice review of the current state of digital pathology, how we got here and where the technology will take us in the future will be released by Springer. My personal thanks to the publisher and our editors for their support...