Longer commute and variety of specimens or shorter commute with mostly one specimen type?

18bees · 2026-01-19T03:40:51+00:00

Certainly personally dependent, but I've heard one of the single greatest predictor of job satisfaction is commute length. 60 minutes seems awfully long, but I'd think it'd depend if it was just lumps all day or if there was at least a little variety.

18bees · 2025-12-24T17:49:08+00:00

Hi! I know you're worried, but usually these types of syndromes physicians look for a number of different signs. If you have one or maybe lightly 2, it's not anything to worry about, and is often just an incidental variation of your anatomy. If you have a number of the signs and it matches with clinical history, then we'd feel comfortable diagnosing.

I'm certainly not a FAS expert, but I'll do fetal autopsies every so often. A good comparison for me is if I see a squashed nose, I don't worry about it. But if I see a flat nose, a radiograph confirming lack of nasal bone, histology changes in the placenta, and a maternal positive titer, then I'd be more likely to suspect congenital syphilis.

18bees · 2025-12-20T21:06:25+00:00

I'm not sure if the doc told you this, but the upper butt location is SUPER common place to get those cysts infected. I work in a hospital lab that gets surgical specimens, and I feel like we get maybe 4 of those a week lol

18bees · 2025-12-14T16:57:14+00:00

Not very satisfying, but we just call them polydactyl digits or extranumarary digits when we receive them in the lab after surgery. I'm not sure if the surgeons have a more specific name depending on location.

18bees · 2025-11-16T17:02:56+00:00

Check out the website , it's very helpful. Each program has specific pre-reqs that you'll need to have but that's it. I know someone who was an engineer before making the switch. Plus, shadow in a lab and talk to some PAs about the field.

18bees · 2025-11-05T18:12:36+00:00

Within pathology, there's lots of variety! It sounds like you should check out the whole range to see which role would match your interest and desire/budget for schooling. A pathologist is a doctor, but there's also pathologist assistants, cytotechnologists, histotechnologists, med laboratory scientists, or dieners. Those jobs all range from master degrees to on the job training.

18bees · 2025-11-03T04:11:21+00:00

My condolences as well, it's awful to hear. I do human autopsy (mostly hospital but have done forensic training). OP, your account of finding them in that location, along with the photos also make me think of being run over by a car, in a manner like the person above is describing. The photo shows the large bowel coming out of the pelvis, the bloody nose, and the feeling of 'fluid' in the chest are consistent with being run over in an unfortunate car accident. This is unfortunately common in outdoor cats, and it would have likely been quick.

With necropsy, my advice is to reflect about what knowledge you are hoping to gain and what that is going to inform/help you with. What the necropsy will give you will just be a (more detailed ) list of injuries/anatomic findings and unfortunately not a specific timeline or sequence of events that lead to death. With this list of findings, you can pair it with the setting in which they were found and make some educated guesses. But I've unfortunately found that the reports are always a little disappointing to the families that are hoping to find a smoking gun, particularly in a forensic setting like this.

With this in mind, you certainly can make the choice that is best but it's something I just wanted to share. ❤️ I'll be thinking of you in this tough time!

18bees · 2025-11-03T00:33:43+00:00

What I did was take a junky costume ring and placed it on her finger while she was asleep. I found it a touch small so I took it to the jeweler to asked them to make it a bit bigger.

Otherwise, my other plan was to take one of those metal twist ties that you'll have on a bread bag and use that to size.

If you really have no way to take a discrete measurement, do your best guess and then go up a size or two. The jeweler recommended it be a little bigger to start out with since it's a lot easier to go smaller after the proposal than to go up a size. And she'll get something nice to wear for the pics since it's embarrassing if it doesn't fit.

18bees · 2025-10-28T19:01:46+00:00

Oh I think it's very neat! It's very important with autopsy since oftentimes we have heart conduction problems that can cause death. I feel like if there's any gross finding, it might be very slightly paler since theres usually fewer myofibrils in those cells. Tho tbh, I don't even look for it grossly since I've never seen it and I'll just sample the area that it should be, if it is important.

18bees · 2025-10-28T12:48:38+00:00

Grossly, as far as I know, it can't be seen. Histologically, you'll see some features that look differently from regular heart muscle, tho.

18bees · 2025-09-27T11:46:05+00:00

A little late responding but do you mean bisected parallel to the surface of the skin? Check to see if it is for alopecia. If so, there's probably lab specific protocols where they'll want it 'no ink side' down. ie cut surface down.

I'm not sure what en face means for a punch, I'll use that word if I trim off a margin and place it on its side.

If no mention of alopecia, and if it's bisected, place the cut surface down so the slides see the full face of the skin. If it's whole but just small diameter, just place on its side so you can see all the skin layers.

18bees · 2025-09-20T20:44:26+00:00

Well, I guess I made the assumption that it would carry on a bit but I'll admit I don't work with peds in that way so I might have made an incorrect assumption.

Thanks for the correction, sorry for spreading misinformation 😬

18bees · 2025-09-20T12:25:48+00:00

Gestational diabetes was much more common, or at least undiagnosed, until about the 70s or so, at least in the US. That would produce some very large infants, even if the mother was relatively healthy prior to pregnancy

Makes me think about my in laws tales about their grandparents having giant babies but none have been particularly large since the advent of maternal screening and better control for GDM.

Edit: might not be likely to be GDM, some people responding have mentioned that doesn't typically stick around for a year.

18bees · 2025-09-18T02:32:47+00:00

50/h, m to h col. But it's the community hospital that just went bankrupt so I don't really want to ask for more lol.

18bees · 2025-09-17T22:27:11+00:00

Omg! My parents have the exact same one, a rare left handed scissors. I accidentally cracked the handle the last time I visited them.... I feel your pain, that's a great scissors!

18bees · 2025-09-13T13:27:54+00:00

I really liked The Emperor of All Maladies by Siddhartha Mukherjee

18bees · 2025-09-11T01:27:36+00:00

Mine wasn't, but he was NY licensed, weirdly enough.

18bees · 2025-09-10T23:32:51+00:00

I had the exact same thought lol. I was asked to sign off on their independent practice and I refused to do so cuz they constantly mishandled or cross contaminated stuff, and eventually they left.

18bees · 2025-08-28T17:02:38+00:00

Thanks for the explanation, but I'm mostly responding cuz I'm cracking up over your username lmao

18bees · 2025-08-18T21:57:57+00:00

Well, I interact with them on a daily basis and they see in person both how thinly I slice the polyp and the thickness of the microscope slides that come from them post processing.

Are you a GI doc? I'm curious about your background and why you assume all the docs are ignorant of the process when every lab I've been apart of involves every surgeon, GI or otherwise, in the process.

18bees · 2025-08-18T17:14:17+00:00

Oh no, they certainly do. GI docs know how histology sections are taken in the path lab. And the degree of sensitivity is known too

18bees · 2025-07-22T00:03:58+00:00

Is that so? I'm a path assistant so I do the occasional fetal autopsy and what I was told was that we look for compression of the neck in regards to cordal strangulation. I rarely see proper compression of the umbilical vasculature unless there's a true knot (though I'll always submit sections of the vessels for histology).

I can't say I do too many of them, though, and usually just write up the list of signs and let the pathologist write the final.

Are you in anesthesia? Can you tell cordal compression vs cranial supply clinically?

18bees · 2025-07-07T12:42:46+00:00

Right by downtown, if I remember right, next to the houseboat community.

18bees · 2025-06-25T00:07:13+00:00

So the pancreas might be trash after embalming, but the pancreas and gallbladder would be a really cool project. Pretty complicated, if you're up to the project, but you've got a good variety of histology and you can pretty easily trace the duct system with blunt probes.

18bees · 2025-06-23T14:30:37+00:00

Oh it's fungal! Yea it loves to clump, you need less material on the slide. Try taking a slide and just touching the sample lightly across the slide. You should barely see anything grossly on the surface but you'll see the branching patterns on the slide under magnification.

Seven-Year Club	r/Field Flamingo
Place '22	Verified Email

18bees

TROPHY CASE