Patient Advocacy
Originally published on KevinMD.com by Dr. Michael Misialek, a practicing pathologist in Massachusetts. As a pathologist, I recognize the importance of every diagnosis. Behind each slide is a patient, a family, a network of family and...
Earlier last year there was an article entitled “Crossing Boundaries” that was published as an e-article in the American Journal of Surgical Pathology (Himenz MC, Leung ST, Park JY AJSP 38:2;March 2014). The authors conducted a...
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...
The below post appeared on 33 charts today. I thought it was a timely topic with relevant thoughts about the issues of patients at medical meetings. The editorial below mentions "When people are talking about you and you’re not at the...
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...
