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Intriguing news from the Dark Report, apparently Stanford is selling off the outpatient Pathology business to the highest bidder.
What can we make of this?
What can we make of this?
Intriguing news from the Dark Report, apparently Stanford is selling off the outpatient Pathology business to the highest bidder.
What can we make of this?
It must be overburdening the faculty having to do a bunch of community practice pathology and/or they don't need the cash.
Stanford was apparently losing money and decided to back off the outreach gig...This decision mainly affects the automated/routine type labs. As caffeinegirl adequately addressed, surgpath/heme and other major areas won't really be affected. I really don't see resident education being affected...well, actually yes: in CP, likely will be getting less of those annoying and uneducational panic values. boo hoo.
I have no clue how you could possibly lose money on CP testing. Actually that would take colossal financial mismanagement as the CEO of Quest Diagnostics makes around 60 million a year and that is primarily what they do!
I hope someone, if not many people in the Stanford outpatient business office were fired for this incompetence.
dunno..perhaps time is money. I know of innnnnnerable issues re:specimens being mislabeled, etc. from these outreach clowns. Such a waste of time tracking things etc.
hell even in AP we sometimes get outreach biopsies from the occasional gen md's labeled as "lesion." No site, no hx. Wow, thanks a freaking lot. Maybe you didn't wanna "bias" us by reporting the patient's history of melanoma. Or maybe you're just a *******. Thank god these instances are rare...with no other history provided (well, i guess patient's name and age..although half the time they don't have these either and we have track down more info = more time wasted).
My med school was looking at opening up some clinics in suburban areas (read: hotbeds of patients who are privately insured) and all the local doctors got all huffy and up in arms about having to compete against a state-run agency that was supposed to be dedicated to indigent care, etc etc...
So I'm surprised local pathologists don't cry foul when academic centers fire up these outreach ventures...
BH
I don't understand the desire of getting the community practice biopsies. It takes away time from teaching and research.
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I don't understand the desire of getting the community practice biopsies. It takes away time from teaching and research.
OMG, almost fell out of my chair laughing. You owe me 6 bucks for the dry cleaning for my labcoat because I spit coffee everywhere too.