Blood and Urine Testing

[RexKD]

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When a patient submits blood and urine for testing (let's say, a liver panel) the patient is only told the samples are being sent to a lab.

Now, a basic liver panel is much too basic for a pathologist to look at. I would say it most likely it is processed quickly and cheaply by a machine which is specialized for this task.

But this machine and the lab would be part of the pathology department of a hospital, right? All blood and tissue samples, even if they're routine such as a blood liver panel, would be the domain of pathologists? Just that such tasks as running samples for a liver panel would be done by technicians and not MD-pathologists.

Please correct me if I'm mistaken.

 

[b&ierstiefel]

Your hunch is correct. Blood tests such as these fall under clinical chemistry which is done in a lab where techs run the machines but is overseen by the clinical pathologist.

 

[yaah]

Clinical pathologists are responsible for the results and organizing the lab - so the machine and the tech may run the test and provide the numbers, but getting to that point is more than that.

 

[RexKD]

Thank you for your replies.

Blood, urine go to CP (Clinical).

And would skin samples, tumor biopsies, and feces go to AP (Anatomical)?

It's hard to intuit which belongs to which.

 

[Mrbojangles]

Feces by way of non bowel prepped colectomies 😉?

 

[beary]

And would skin samples, tumor biopsies, and feces go to AP (Anatomical)?

Skin samples and tumor biopsies go to AP.

All of the feces gets shipped to AndyM at BWH.

 

[RexKD]

Skin samples and tumor biopsies go to AP.

All of the feces gets shipped to AndyM at BWH.

So who gets the feces after AndyM is done with them? AP? CP?

 

[Brian Pavlovitz]

So who gets the feces after AndyM is done with them? AP? CP?

LADoc00 gets it to hurl at dermatopathologists!! 😀

 

[quant]

LADoc00 gets it to hurl at dermatopathologists!! 😀

ROFLMAO............

 

[b&ierstiefel]

quant keeps giggling like this, he's gonna develop a hernia...

 

[quant]

quant keeps giggling like this, he's gonna develop a hernia...

Im merely happy Andy.....

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