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I teach clinical and anatomic pathology lab sciences. Scientist, not a physician. I teach all the cool lab diagnosis stuff from medical TV shows that physicians wish they did. Veteran. 3rd-generation Mexican-American. I try to listen more than I speak.
That basement membrane stain is crisp. And the mesangium in the EM is classic. May I use your pictures and description (with attribution) in our medical lab science/histology classes?
October 5, 2025 at 4:00 PM
That basement membrane stain is crisp. And the mesangium in the EM is classic. May I use your pictures and description (with attribution) in our medical lab science/histology classes?
My histology professor in college was a pathologist named Dr. Samples.
July 29, 2025 at 12:32 PM
My histology professor in college was a pathologist named Dr. Samples.
Fantastic silver basement membrane stain. It takes skill to do that reliably. That's a decent Congo Red too. The EM is crisp. Did they do en bloc staining, or is that all on the grid?
July 26, 2025 at 2:37 AM
Fantastic silver basement membrane stain. It takes skill to do that reliably. That's a decent Congo Red too. The EM is crisp. Did they do en bloc staining, or is that all on the grid?
You can argue or shift blame. I've pulled people out the window of a halfway-submerged car. I've seen the bodies of people carried away, and the bodies of divers that died trying to retrieve them. We can afford prevention and response. Not doing so is a choice.
July 5, 2025 at 10:08 PM
You can argue or shift blame. I've pulled people out the window of a halfway-submerged car. I've seen the bodies of people carried away, and the bodies of divers that died trying to retrieve them. We can afford prevention and response. Not doing so is a choice.
Proper forecasting and alerts save lives here. We have city-wide broadcast equipment for weather alerts. The climate is changing. It's going to get worse. As a country, we need a top of the line national weather service and disaster response. We don't anymore. People will die as a result.
July 5, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Proper forecasting and alerts save lives here. We have city-wide broadcast equipment for weather alerts. The climate is changing. It's going to get worse. As a country, we need a top of the line national weather service and disaster response. We don't anymore. People will die as a result.
I've been in that boat. Building a histology course on the fly. 6 years of teaching functional histology, and I'm still in that boat. I learn something new every time I teach it. If I do a good job, I get a few questions I have to look up. That means they're listening and engaging.
June 6, 2025 at 11:50 PM
I've been in that boat. Building a histology course on the fly. 6 years of teaching functional histology, and I'm still in that boat. I learn something new every time I teach it. If I do a good job, I get a few questions I have to look up. That means they're listening and engaging.
This kind of dumb can only be accomplished with "AI."
Good call. You caught the fleet of Stryker vehicles I kept hidden in my closet. Deleting my file when I was in the middle of conversation with the poor befuddled supply sergeant doesn't stink with the musk of incompetence either.
Good call. You caught the fleet of Stryker vehicles I kept hidden in my closet. Deleting my file when I was in the middle of conversation with the poor befuddled supply sergeant doesn't stink with the musk of incompetence either.
March 20, 2025 at 3:24 AM
This kind of dumb can only be accomplished with "AI."
Good call. You caught the fleet of Stryker vehicles I kept hidden in my closet. Deleting my file when I was in the middle of conversation with the poor befuddled supply sergeant doesn't stink with the musk of incompetence either.
Good call. You caught the fleet of Stryker vehicles I kept hidden in my closet. Deleting my file when I was in the middle of conversation with the poor befuddled supply sergeant doesn't stink with the musk of incompetence either.
CIF is turning in all the equipment issued to you. They make you clean it and they inspect it.
That's like getting a phone call that you have to take a calculus test from 10th grade to keep your diploma. But you have your diploma already. And you took that calculus test.
That's like getting a phone call that you have to take a calculus test from 10th grade to keep your diploma. But you have your diploma already. And you took that calculus test.
March 20, 2025 at 3:19 AM
CIF is turning in all the equipment issued to you. They make you clean it and they inspect it.
That's like getting a phone call that you have to take a calculus test from 10th grade to keep your diploma. But you have your diploma already. And you took that calculus test.
That's like getting a phone call that you have to take a calculus test from 10th grade to keep your diploma. But you have your diploma already. And you took that calculus test.
You reminded me of a similar story from my lab.
When I took over as director of my lab, I put up disposal instructions over every sink. I asked the chem chair to review it just in case. He had a couple of recommendations, but said it looked good.
6 minutes later, he knocked on my door and asked "Did I see picric acid on the list? Can I see it?"
6 minutes later, he knocked on my door and asked "Did I see picric acid on the list? Can I see it?"
We were in organic chemistry lab when a police officer walked through and said "get out".
Then a fireman walked through the same way and said, "he's not kidding. Get out of the building.".
We left.
The entire building was shut down over a gallon sized bottle of picric acid that had crystalized.
Then a fireman walked through the same way and said, "he's not kidding. Get out of the building.".
We left.
The entire building was shut down over a gallon sized bottle of picric acid that had crystalized.
March 2, 2025 at 3:46 AM
You reminded me of a similar story from my lab.
I showed him the aqueous picric acid and Bouin solution, and he breathed a sigh of relief.
"We found some crystallized picric acid when I first started, and we had to ask the military to send EOD from the nearby base. I had to be sure."
"We found some crystallized picric acid when I first started, and we had to ask the military to send EOD from the nearby base. I had to be sure."
March 2, 2025 at 3:15 AM
I showed him the aqueous picric acid and Bouin solution, and he breathed a sigh of relief.
"We found some crystallized picric acid when I first started, and we had to ask the military to send EOD from the nearby base. I had to be sure."
"We found some crystallized picric acid when I first started, and we had to ask the military to send EOD from the nearby base. I had to be sure."