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Therefore we have CAP Transformation.
As callous as this is, I don't give a crap about how US practices compare to those in the Middle and Far East. It's a useless comparison. Stop worrying about Mumbai and worry about the future of your profession.
No way will the antiquated system of removing tissue and sending to a laboratory last forever. The only question is when will it end.
Pathology job market is gonna be bad for a long time. Most labs are becoming sweatshops since profit margins are getting killed by all the inducements used to get business. You gotta sign out a ton of cases just to keep the doors open.
Specialists wanna do their own pathology or at least be in control of the revenue generated. Technology is gonna make it possible to make diagnosis point of care. Look at all the devices getting ready to hit the market in the near future. No way will the antiquated system of removing tissue and sending to a laboratory last forever. The only question is when will it end.
The End is near. Repent now sinners, for the time is nigh.
regardless of what technologies will exist out there, there is still going to be a need to have tissue removed, cancer surgically excised, and tissue examined by experts. That's us. Maybe our role gets reduced, who knows, but it won't disappear. Make yourself essential by doing great work and striving to provide as much clinical input as you can. Work with clinicians, not against them.
All I have heard since 1981 when I started residency after several clinical years is "gloom and doom". you would have thought TERFA in '83 was going to end the world.
It hasn't happened and i am still doing the same thing as i was 20+ years ago.
I must admit to pathstudent that the "glory days" are probably gone but one can still make a good living in pathology with career satisfaction.
Who will bell the cat?
Well primary care model is not possible in usa? Cut the crap. This is a country of opportunities. It depends on the way u sell ur idea to the aamc or big guys who make laws. On one side they talk abt primary care shortage.why wont they accept if pathologist do 2 in 1 job. All we need is some period of clinical rotations. Anyways ap/cp is 4 yrs and most of the 4th year is goofing off (8oard prep) time. Instead of reducing path from 5 yrs to 4 and having people waste another 2 to 3 yrs in fellowships, it is better pathologist comes out from their basement and offers 2 in 1 service.
bauer knows this and cap supports thia. Hence they have started training pathologists by arranging patient simulation workshops. Check their website or google it.
Bottom line.......we need to change.
well said
i agree.
But will radiologist/surgeons share their pie with us? I doubt..... unless we have a strong lobby
I targeted primary care cos it is easy to get a piece of their pie and in turn get more pathologists in job
cool.
lets do some studies to comu,e up with data showing that biopsies done by IR/Surgeons etc are inadequate for interpretation and hence pathologists need to do them personally under radiography or USG etc. Do you think there is enough weight in this thought ? what other reasons you can justify to steal their procedures ? I dont think it is possible......
There is no doubt technology and new guidelines will reduce the number of biopsies. Ive lost count of the number of laser devices being tested to reduce the number of skin biopsies. Some are not far from hitting the market. Does less biopsies in a crowded job market make the future sound rosy to you?
Is a Nilf anything like a MILF?
Just curious.
I always thought it meant Neoplasm I'd Like to Freeze
As callous as this is, I don't give a crap about how US practices compare to those in the Middle and Far East. It's a useless comparison. Stop worrying about Mumbai and worry about the future of your profession.