Digital Pathology: Historical Perspectives, Current Concepts & Future...
Later this year, a nice review of the current state of digital pathology, how we got here and where the technology will take us in the future will be released by Springer. My personal thanks to the...
View ArticlePathologists Cannot Talk to Patients? Fuggedaboutit – Addendum
Last October I wrote a post “Pathologists Cannot Talk to Patients? Fuggedaboutit” The Pathologist is now reporting some movement against this piece of legislation bad for patients and pathologists:...
View ArticlePatients Are Not Customers ?!?
I recently came across a blog post on KevinMD entitled “Patients are not customers. Here are 6 reasons why” written by Dr. Shirie Leng, an anesthesiologist in Massachusetts. She introduces the post...
View ArticleFarewell PathologyBlawg.com
Blogs, like blog readers, come and go. It is part of the nature of creating blogs and reading blogs. Writing a blog consumes resources for the blogger and readers take time to read and comment or...
View ArticleDoc the Bartender
Many thanks to Dr. Jordan Grumet at In My Humble Opinion for allowing me to repost this recent article he shared. I have mentioned Jordan before and appreciate his very personal thoughts he shares with...
View ArticleRoyal College of Pathologists Supports DigitalPath Europe 2016
As attendance grows for DigitalPath Europe Congress, the meeting organizers of this leading international event on digital pathology, are delighted to announce that the Royal College of Pathologists...
View ArticleThe Unleashed Power of Digital Pathology: Is There a Way Forward?
The featured post for today is guest written by Dr. Anil Parwani, known throughout the industry as a key opinion leader and has been very active in digital pathology among many other professional and...
View ArticleThe Dark Side of The Moon
With all due respect to Pink Floyd, it seems there is some growing concern the National Cancer Moonshot Initiative is running off course a bit with its recent selection of the “Blue Ribbon Panel” and...
View ArticleHospital Now Accepting Likes, Retweets as Payments
NASHVILLE, TN – In a stunning health care coup, Stalwart Memorial Hospital has announced a new advertising campaign that is sure to change the face of hospital publicity and simultaneously lower the...
View ArticleThe People That You Meet – (Half of) The Sisterhood
On my most recent flight to the United Kingdom in May to give a couple of talks in London, as I was settling into my seat for the 6 hour flight, a young girl came up behind me and said that she had...
View ArticleMike, Kevin and Darrell Ask “Can You Look at My Slides?”
We are all busy, and I’m not different. Between busy clinical schedules, travel for work and pleasure, the Spring and Summer are a blur. But there’s nothing like voices from your past to force you to...
View ArticlePathology 2.0 Comes of Age: Recommendations for Protecting Privacy While...
There is an interesting article in this month’s AMA Journal of Ethics by Drs. Crane and Gardner on the use of pathology images in social media. The authors introduce the article in their abstract as...
View ArticleThe Digital Pathology Global Pioneer Award 2016 Winners Announced
Honored and grateful beyond words to be among those chosen by my peers to receive this pioneering award for work in digital pathology. Countless folks over the past two decades have contributed to...
View ArticleNews of Our Patients Death Have Been Greatly Exaggerated!
Dr. Karim Sirgi, MD, MBA, FCAP, Managing Partner and CEO, LambdaX3 International recently wrote the below post on LinkedIn. Karim has kindly agreed to allow me to repost it here to share outside...
View ArticleRiding a Bike Versus The Hard Part
2 weeks ago I mentioned to a prominent cancer researcher at a prominent cancer center in the United States I would be completing 2 200-mile bike rides over the next few weeks with several hundred other...
View ArticleWhose Image Is It?
Earlier this week, Simon Häger, Product Manager, Sectra Digital Pathology Solution wrote a nice reflection/opinion piece on Sectra’s website entitled “Who Can Claim Ownership of a Pathology Image?”...
View ArticleThe Future of Anatomic Pathology – 2 Possible Outcomes and More
allthingspath.com had a recent interesting post on 2 possible outcomes for anatomic pathology at some point in the future of anatomic pathology. One scenario is related to whole slide imaging and the...
View ArticleWill Not Using Image Analysis in Pathology be Perceived as Irresponsible?
Originally published by Simon Häger, Product Manager Sectra Digital Pathology Solution at Sectra.com. It is hard to argue with any of the points raised here by Simon. No doubt image analysis will...
View Article“Academic” Tweeting – Is it “Academic” and Will it Be Recognized as Such?
Dr. Bruce Friedman over at Lab Soft News has an interesting post today on “The “Why” and “How” of Academic Tweeting”. Many of you know that Bruce is widely considered the grandfather of pathology...
View ArticleThe Motley Fool: Google AI Just Beat Human Pathologists at Detecting Cancer
Apparently it is official…pathologists have been replaced by Google. Just like those folding maps, the yellow pages, the white pages, newspapers, racing forms, microfiche, books and other annoying...
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