By having several similar cases (ie. breast,prostate,colon bx's) on one cold plate at a time and having slides already numbered/made up. I have seen techs accidently place the wrong tissue on the wrong numbered slide. I have also seen techs write the wrong numner on slides before. Sorry for the confusing question.

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From: JHoffpa464@aol.com [mailto:JHoffpa464@aol.com]
Sent: Wednesday, January 29, 2003 9:15 AM
To: Martin, Ronald; Lynne.Bell@hitchcock.org;
histonet@pathology.swmed.edu
Subject: Re: Minnesota histology mistake


how do you put the worng tissue on the wrong slide. i know for a fact you can only operate one microtome at a time. i have tried to use two at once, when very busy.