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One of my favorite shows on television is History Channel’s Pawn Stars. I appreciate the nature of what they do – having to know a little bit about a lot, knowing when they don’t know enough to assess the value of something or even know...

While attending the CAP meeting back in September I recalled my experience with Kimberly (see: Kimberly's Story and the Power of Pathology 2.0) and presented a call to action for pathologists to become patient advocates. Since then, a...

Perhaps not too surprisingly, there was a pretty good response to my post towards the end of last month entitled “Pathologists Cannot Talk to Patients? Fuggedaboutit”. And also not too surprisingly given the issues I raised the battle...

A few weeks after I wrote “The Patient at The Tumor Board” a strange thing happened. About 10 minutes before a tumor board was suppose to start as I was checking the microscope, camera and software, the radiologist was logging into the...

Drs. Parwani, Hassell, Glassy and Pantanowitz have an excellent editorial entitled "Regulatory barriers surrounding the use of whole slide imaging in the United States of America" in the most recent edition of the Journal of Pathology...

There has been an issue that has come to light for the better part of this year that deals with legislation in New York State which does not allow for pathologists to speak directly with patients. For the past several months I have been...