Gross Pathology and Beyond website is the “ancestor” of original Grossing Technology in Surgical Pathology conceived in 2002. The predecessor had been popular during more than a decade among interested professionals by addressing details of grossing technology procedure. The topics of the website included also gross room equipment, CPT coding in anatomic pathology, safety issues, and other. The website’s materials were summarized in books: Grossing Technology: A Guide for Biopsies and Small Specimens, Grossing Bones: Principles, Techniques, Instruments, Skin Grossing in Histology Laboratories, and CPT Coding in Anatomic Pathology.
Gross Pathology keeps only a fraction of previous website. A separate section addresses details of maintaining a sustainable educational laboratory website (Dimenstein IB, Dimenstein SI: Development of a Laboratory Niche Website. Annals of Diagnostic Pathology, 17, 2013; Dimenstein IB: Laboratory Educational Authority Website Development. International Journal of Education and Information Technology, Volume 2, Issue 2, 2016).
The upgraded Gross Pathology and Beyond website intends to address a variety of issues in medicine and even in social life to which the hosts or the guests have their approaches. The guest part is especially welcomed, encouraged, and appreciated. Big tent of participants can provide multifaceted field of vision; the perspective of current issues would be wider, the prospects of them might be more reliable. There are always limitations for sharing them by competence and humility.
Gross Pathology
Gross appearance is the first encounter of the specimen processing in surgical pathology and autopsy. While the goal of grossing technology is in presenting the most representative sample for diagnosis, the Gross Pathology website intends to address basic pathology issues from the host’s perspective as an experimental researcher, clinical and anatomic pathologist, pathologists’ assistant and grossing technologist. Gross pathology methodology based on autopsy and surgical pathology practice, as well as supported by histology and cytology microscopy, is based on the evidence on the dissection table and under the microscope. This gives an opportunity of factual perspective, instead of assumptions.
Beyond
The aim of this part of the website is not to light a projector but switch to illuminate some general issues through specifics topics with an analytic flashlight. There is a saying that weight of knowledge lifts the head; while enhancing knowledge we avoid to sticking with outdated paradigms.
The concept of functional pathology allows to discuss a variety of medical and even social issues through the prism of general pathology. A less explored evolutionary approach could contribute to better understanding of the trends in our life development. In this vein are written the host’s books: 2021 Black Swan’s Questions for COVID-19; 2025 Fascism Democracy’s Disease: A pathologist’s foray into sociology.
The domain grossing-technology.com is intentionally left with the hope that the previous website’s friends will return to explore new avenues beyond practical utility applications in grossing technology. Comments and suggestions are highly welcomed.
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