From: | "George Cole" |
Histotechs,
This is One-Note George here----in
July, when I started offering the packet of videos and pages of muscle and nerve
biopsy techniques, I was full of the subjects of histochemistry
on those tissues. Now, after about
a thousand 2 and 3 and 4 letter processes that I know nothing about showing up
day after day on the histonet----I know BVD’s but they are my own----and all the new
procedures---honest to pete---you histotechs
have hoisted yourself up the science ladders to equality with the Med
Techs----at least you can snow me even more often than they can. When I started.as
a histotech
43 years ago, there was a 3
by 7 foot table strung with tubes and tubules----doing Med Tech Magic----in the
middle of the lab where they ruled with magic and test tubes. Med Techs hovered
next to the residents in the hierarchy, Vampires, with their needles
and histotechs
with their paraffins and a hat full of stains huddled
busily far down the pecking order. Now there are new machines still buzzing and
honking in the med tech’s spaces----but the med techs now have to come to
the histotechs often to ask you to do things they
know nothing about----you must fight the urge to quote that character from one
of Dicken’s
great novels---- ‘’DON’T KNOW YA, DON’T KNOW YA!!!”
Immunos,
antibodies, mysterious initials---GLORIOSITY----you histotechs
have mysteries enough to wield to snow the neuropathologists themselves!!! It’s an honor
to call myself one----and a keen observer will note I always have my fingers crossed
and stand ready to run for it, when any of you start asking How-To questions.
GOOD ON YOU ALL!!!
georgecole@ev1.net