Recent content by ScubaV

Doing a pathology rotation as an interested medical student is necessary but difficult. You can't do actual patient care like grossing or writing reports like in clinical medicine. And previewing "live" cases will probably be very limited because that's blocking a resident or attending from...

People can certainly be competent or incompetent regardless of age, but when I need to see a physician/dentist/optometrist I specifically look for someone who seems like they're mid-career (late 30s to early-mid 50s). I want someone with real world seasoning, but still flexible enough to keep...

I know one guy in his 80s who's still involved with teaching/research, but hasn't signed out cases in years. I'm actually not sure if he gets paid at all or just does it for fun. Another guy is in his mid-late 70s and last I heard from former colleagues he's still working full time in a...

Wow 245 is only 45th percentile? Seems crazy inflated from when I took it. I guess that's a consequence of Step 1 being pass/fail.

Wow, never heard of this before. Sounds like a scenario where someone got burned and clinicians lost trust. Maybe that will happen to whoever's doing pathology for this Oregon place.

Agree with others, why is the patient being scheduled with the pathologist and why is he giving results directly? Has to be breast FNA which is outdated and inappropriate if there's even remote suspicion of malignancy. Even so, how and why is the PCP informing her that the results are wrong a...

Has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?

Yeah changing low-grade to CIS is very strange, assuming the terminology in the article is being used accurately. Flat, low-grade lesions are very, very rarely diagnosed in my experience. If it's low-grade, it's >99% papillary and if it's flat and neoplastic, it's >99% high-grade / CIS...

Forget businesses that require startup capital, I would spend those 26 weeks prepping a slick campaign for hot new cryptocurrency and then unveil right as Bitcoin starts another upcycle. Maybe PathCoin, HematoxCoin, or 40xScopeCoin. Name needs work, but that's for 25 of the 26 weeks.

Role: Health system employee Salary: $380k Bonus: Up to $30k Medical Director Pay: $15k Benefits: Cheap medical/dental/vision, good retirement options/contributions Vacation: 8 weeks CME: $3k RVUs: Peaked at ~12k, current estimate is ~7-8k after additional hires Intangibles: Workplace...

Probably depends what "rural" means. Consider Bentonville, Arkansas. Population 50K with the nearest major airport 3+ hours away. Most coastal types would probably consider it the middle of nowhere (I wouldn't want to live there), but it has the Walmart headquarters and a lot of people with...

Since it's an average, I bet the top end skews that quite a bit. Would be interesting to see that subdivided into top 1% and top 0.1%. Reminds me of that quote by some NBA scrub that barely plays: "I'm closer to Lebron than you are to me." Kicker is that physicians aren't that NBA scrub...

Amongst the various pros and cons, this is probably a pro for the large scale employed model. Almost all of our GIs, surgeons, etc are also employed by the health system so it's not like they can send their specimens elsewhere. However, if average salary/reimbursement goes down it doesn't help...

Probably depends on a few factors. I interviewed with the VP overseeing the lab division. It was more of a vibe check than anything, to make sure I was normal. If you're interested in leadership roles or possibly joining admin at some point, then you'll need to be more active with building...