Are you using a tape coverslipping system? If you are, this might be
the cause of all your woes. Try recoverslippig the offending slides
with glass and see if the problem is solved

Best regards

On 7/28/05, Julie.Sanders@med.va.gov  wrote:
> 
> One of our pathologists is complaining about having to focus up and down too
> much while reading slides.  I have tried many things to resolve the problem
> but nothing is making him happy.  I have changed the way we pick up from
> water bath to be sure slides are perpendicular (straight up and down) when
> picking up sections, we use only plus slides, I've asked that slides not be
> placed on the warming platform after picking up.  Does anyone have any ideas
> about how I can fix this problem?
> 
> Julie
> 
> Julie Sanders
> Supervisor, Anatomic Pathology
> Cincinnati VA
> 
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Louise Renton
Bone Research Unit
University of the Witwatersrand
Johannesburg
South Africa
"....I know who I am. No-one else knows who I am. If I was a giraffe,
and someone said I was a snake, I'd think no, actually I'm a giraffe"
Richard Gere

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