how many slides?

[whournameiz]

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How many slides do attendings dictate on average on any given day? Do they still have a lot of downtime? PP Radiologists read about 100 films a day and obviously not too much down time, you gotta go through these very fast. What is it like for pathologists?

 

[deleted57552]

How many slides do attendings dictate on average on any given day? Do they still have a lot of downtime? PP Radiologists read about 100 films a day and obviously not too much down time, you gotta go through these very fast. What is it like for pathologists?

It varies depending on the type of case. For instance, biopsy specimens will yield few slides whereas cases from resections will involve more slides.

There have been days where I look at over 200 slides. There have been days where I look at only 80 slides.

You have to know your stuff. You have to be efficient. This all comes with experience. As a junior attending, you will be slow, cautious, and ruminate more on details. That's just the nature of the beast.

 

[yaah]

We had a resident gross in a specimen and he put through 250 blocks. The attending made the mistake of telling him to go back to a melanoma excision and "put more through." Whoops.

Private practice pathologists spend a lot of their day at the scope or on the computer verifying results or on the phone communicating. Downtime probably depends on the day and other variables. In academics the actual time spent is less but there are more demands.

 

[pathgrrl]

We had a resident gross in a specimen and he put through 250 blocks.

That's crazy, poor fool. I can't believe someone didn't notice something funny when all the blocks were gone and the paraffin was used up.

 

[yaah]

Yeah, but none of that happens until after all the tissue is in the blocks. And in a high volume institution you may not notice if the processor is unusually full one day, because it happens, there are some days with lots of derm cases.

 

[deleted57552]

We had a resident gross in a specimen and he put through 250 blocks. The attending made the mistake of telling him to go back to a melanoma excision and "put more through." Whoops.

Private practice pathologists spend a lot of their day at the scope or on the computer verifying results or on the phone communicating. Downtime probably depends on the day and other variables. In academics the actual time spent is less but there are more demands.

Whoa! Entirely submitted the thing? Was it a passive-aggressive ploy on the part of a resident who didn't like to be told to go bucket-diving?