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What are the current and future technological advancements in pathology?
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Sue Lowden is the front runner to replace Harry Reid as the Senator from Nevada. She has famously said that patients should bring chickens and barter with their doctors. http://www.dailykos.com/tv/w/002666/index.html
Now this is a golden opportunity for pathologists. Let's say that the family practice doctor has 5 chickens at the end of the day, what is she going to do with them? The local path group offers to collect the patient specimens and the chickens during the daily pickup. The lab results and biopsy interpretations are delivered electronically. The chickens are butchered in the pathology lab (lots of sharp knives around already) and the chickens are delivered the next day.
Some licensing issues need to be considered, but passing a state health inspection cannot be that different than a CAP inspection.
Time to be creative people.
Now this is a golden opportunity for pathologists. Let's say that the family practice doctor has 5 chickens at the end of the day, what is she going to do with them? The local path group offers to collect the patient specimens and the chickens during the daily pickup. The lab results and biopsy interpretations are delivered electronically. The chickens are butchered in the pathology lab (lots of sharp knives around already) and the chickens are delivered the next day.
Some licensing issues need to be considered, but passing a state health inspection cannot be that different than a CAP inspection.
Time to be creative people.
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Molecular pathology advances will change practice quite a bit. However, the specific nature of many tests and intellectual property issues will limit their utility in regular practice. In many years they will become more routine as they become cheaper and more accessible. Theoretically, they will one day replace morphology but that is both theoretical and distant. Theoretically, these changes could also replace all physicians, not just pathologists. Virtual slides will also become increasingly important, but probably slow to have major impact in routine practice - they will probably become more important in niche areas and for secondary reasons (like consults or frozen sections). Again, as technology becomes cheaper it will increase.
It is hard to predict how technology will change lives. Most predictions over history have been wrong. There will probably be new technologies and innovations that change things far more than advances in existing technology.
It is hard to predict how technology will change lives. Most predictions over history have been wrong. There will probably be new technologies and innovations that change things far more than advances in existing technology.
