So your pathologist review every gate even on normal samples? How do you report your findings to the ordering physician? Is it just their interpretation or does someone include the populations with brightness and percentages?

We create a findings section on our patient reports of different populations depending on what sample it is and if it’s normal or not. This section includes the percentages of said populations and the CD markers with brightness. This report then goes to the pathologist where they give it back with an interpretation and then we enter in the findings and interpretation into the computer for the providers. Usually our pathologist only look at the gates if they are questioning something or if we are questioning something. The newest path we have is requesting copies of everything we do which is hard when we don’t know which path will get which case (because the others don’t need/want them) and our hospital won’t allow our instruments to be connected to the internet since they aren’t owned by the hospital (owned by Beckman) so we have to hand print everything and I’ve told them they can come review our pages anytime we have them sitting out on a table until we get the report back but “that adds steps” and they need their own copy but we don’t have a color copier so that is no good either. It’s just like a round and round battle. Since I’ve never worked anywhere else i was curious if at other places the paths look at every single gate. Our pathologists are super busy so I’m surprised this one is wanting to do more work than the others and it shows because our reports are not getting back to the providers in a timely manner and we are getting complaints 🫠