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.

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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