Pathology loosing PR battle

[Nilf]

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Go to NYTimes health section.

http://www.nytimes.com/pages/health/index.html

On the top, there is an article about neurosurgery, entitled "Inside neurosurgery's rise".

Now, scroll all the way down. The old, infamous article about the difficulties in diagnosis of breast lesions is still lurking there. The title: "Pathology of errors".

Where are you, USCAP, CAP, ASCP? You = EPIC PR FAIL

 

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CAP is too busy "transforming" to worry about these kinds of things. Just start rounding with the ID team, then everything will be alright.

 

[pathstudent]

Go to NYTimes health section.

http://www.nytimes.com/pages/health/index.html

On the top, there is an article about neurosurgery, entitled "Inside neurosurgery's rise".

Now, scroll all the way down. The old, infamous article about the difficulties in diagnosis of breast lesions is still lurking there. The title: "Pathology of errors".

Where are you, USCAP, CAP, ASCP? You = EPIC PR FAIL

No comment about CAP or the breast article, but that neurosurgery article is awesome.

As part of my AOA activities in medical school (I was "junior-year" AOA so I had 16 months of involvement) , I organized book clubs around classic texts in medicine (books by Osler, Virchow, etc...). We read a book by Cushing (who the article is about) about the pituitary gland. It was awesome and he was an unbelievable artist as the article states. His paintings and drawings of pituitary adenomas are amazingly spot on, like exactly what you see under a scope. Those were the best days of medicine, when doctors were genteel folk who loved science and helping others, not like today when it is full of business oriented people who just care about making themselves wealthy.

Cushing is the kind of physician we should all emulate: scholar, artist, writer, teacher and first rate doctor.