REAL STORIES
Pathologists are transforming and re-defining their role every day! Here are some stories from your colleagues that remind us of the important work pathologists do each day. We hope these stories inspire you to transform our specialty.
March 29, 2010 – Don’t Say No
“I look at the medical school curriculum and make sure we’re talking about health disparities, how we can eliminate them, and why they exist in the first place.”
- Patricia A. Thomas, MD, MA, FCAP
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March 22, 2010 – Big-Picture Thinking
“It’s critical to have the buy-in of all the different departments and to have everyone working in concert toward specific goals.”
- Moira P. Larsen, MD, MBA, FCAP
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March 16, 2010 – Observations from the juncture where computers and
medicine intersect
“A pathologist performing an FNA...mitigates risk to the patient and limits costs to the health system. You’re providing a service that no other specialist can provide.”
- Raj C. Dash, MD, FCAP
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March 8, 2010 – For personalized health care, there’s no place like home
“The same basic principles of good laboratory medicine will apply to molecular testing. It’s not rocket science; it’s pathology.”
- Samuel K. Caughron, MD, FCAP
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March 1, 2010 – The Art of the Possible
“The biggest hurdle in many job searches is not finding what you want but knowing what you want.”
- Paul N. Valenstein, MD, FCAP
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February 23, 2010 – Virtual Karyotyping: If You Build it, They Will Come
“The early adopters are on board for cytogenomic arrays. When people see the utility, they come around.”
- Jill M. Hagenkord, MD, FCAP
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February 15, 2010 - Taking the Bull by the Horns
“Just because you’re being nice doesn’t mean you cannot be firm.” - Krishnarao V. Tangella, MD, MBA, FCAP
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February 8, 2010 – Achieving a Proper Balance
“One of our challenges as teachers in pathology residency programs is to achieve a proper balance between the old and the new.”
- Richard B. Mertens, MD, PhD, FCAP
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February 1, 2010 – Rare, yes. Inexplicable, no.
“For amyloidosis, you need a tissue diagnosis. So it is up to us.”
- Maria M. Picken, MD, PhD, FASN, FCAP
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January 25, 2010 – Bridging the Interdisciplinary Knowledge Gap
Simply putting lab work on the computer was not the answer to getting proper patient care. - Alexander Duncan, MD, FCAP
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January 18, 2010 – Living in the Teachable Moment
“One of the things I learned is that the people who create and implement laws and regulations that influence the practice of pathology have absolutely no understanding of what we do and how integral a part of medicine we really are.” - Raja M. Gidwani, MD
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January 11, 2010 – To Get Inside Oncologists’ Heads
“Sometimes it’s like that telephone game; you issue a report, the surgeon reads it and communicates it somehow to the oncologist or another clinician who may or may not read it and may have a completely different take on it. I’m fascinated with that; it’s like watching a train wreck.” - Mark D. Pool, MD, FCAP
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January 4, 2010 – In Transformational Pathology, Thinking Clinical is Critical
“When you walk into the procedure room, you could be giving patients life-changing information. They have to be confident in you. That’s a different skill set.” - Melinda Moore Lewis, MD, FCAP, on fine-needle aspiration
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