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CAP members across the spectrum are sharing their stories about steps they are taking to transform their practice. And, they are finding it can be be professionally and personally rewarding.
January 3, 2012 - Inoculate Them With Your Enthusiasm
“If you show others that you enjoy your work and that it matters, you just might inspire them.” - Gene N. Herbek, MD, FCAP
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November 29, 2011 - Little Steps Make a Difference
“Realize that change doesn’t really come from on high; it’s an accumulation of all the tiny changes. If we intend it so, those little steps will make a difference; it takes the collective to transform the practice of pathology, not just those doctors in the spotlight.” - Evelyn Lockhart, MD, FCAP
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November 15, 2011 - Transformation – By Nature or Nurture?
“A conversation with a patient can teach a pathologist more than a book or journal can in a year.” - Gaurav Sharma, MD
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November 1, 2011 - Stand in Front of the Curtain
“Ultimately, we’ll get to a point where it’s out of our hands, on a financial level. Patients will have more choices, and service will drive those decisions. In order to survive, pathologists will need to come out from behind the black curtain in the basement and put a face on the laboratory.” - Jeffrey L. Myers, MD, FCAP
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October 18, 2011 - Nothing Set in Stone
“The LAP is one of those things that actually turned out pretty much the way it was supposed to.” - David W. Eckert, MD, FCAP
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September 27, 2011 - The Patient is Key
“You can be a great diagnostician, but if you don’t know what the diagnosis means for the patient, you don’t understand the power of what it is that we do and how important it is.” - Geoffrey A. Talmon, MD, FCAP
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August 23, 2011 - Building a Culture of Constant Improvement
“The idea is to have a system where patients get what they need when they need it—no more nor less and neither sooner nor later than it is needed. We really need to focus on the individual patient.” - Michael S. Brown, MD, FCAP
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August 9, 2011 - Lighting a Fire Under Pathology
“New people coming out of training are going to light a fire under pathology. I look forward to working with them, and I want to be ready for them.”
- Nancy C. Kois, MD, FCAP
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July 26, 2011 - Connecting the Dots
“If you are trying to work them up for some nondescript stomach pain without asking them, ‘Are you safe in your relationships?’ you are going to waste a lot of time and money. And you will not serve your patients.”
- Mary Ann Sens, MD, PhD, FCAP
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July 12, 2011 - Changing Skies
“Pathologists should not be intimidated by genome science and technology. At the end of the day, a patient’s genome is just another laboratory value.” - Mark Boguski, MD, PhD, FCAP
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June 27, 2011 - Ask Anything
“Part of this is helping young people find their strengths.” - Margaret H. Neal, MD, FCAP
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June 13, 2011 – Rethinking Competency
“It’s not good enough to be a smart and good doctor; you have to be a smart and good doctor who can talk to other people and get along with others, too.”
- Gary W. Procop, MD, MS, FCAP
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May 31, 2011 – Getting Out of Your Comfort Zone
“Push yourself to do something that gets you out of your comfort zone.”
- Rebecca L. Johnson, MD, FCAP
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February 24, 2011 – Vegetable Soup
“The motto is listen, observe, analyze, communicate.”
- Monita Soni, MD, FCAP
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February 9, 2011 – The Guy Who Sponsors the Trout Catch Every Year
“I am a strong advocate for physicians getting out in the community and being involved.”
- Karl J. Blessinger, MD, FCAP
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January 19, 2011 – When It Is Your Place, Make It Your Space
“We need to be able to step up, to volunteer before we are asked, and to say, ‘We can help with this; this is an expertise of ours; this is our niche.’”
- Kathleen A. McMonigal, MD, FCAP
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January 11, 2011 – Cultural Competence
“As a pathologist, I have always been interested in cervical cancer, its screening and diagnosis.” - Si Van Nguyen, MD,
FCAP
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