My kids had the benefit of living and going to school in Hawaii.  They are 
already using the following phrase:

"Why, when I was a kid, I used to have to take a boat across shark 
infested Pearl Harbor in the dead of winter to get to school".
They DID.  We lived on a base on the leeward side of Pearl Harbor, and the 
Navy provided a 200 man shuttle/launch to get to the Windward side for 
school kids and military personnel to get to work at Pearl Harbor and 
Hickam Air Force Base.    So, for all you parents who worry when you put 
your kids on the school BUS every day - Pearl Harbor IS infested with 
hammer head sharks.  I'll never forget yelling "Hurry up!  You'll miss the 
school boat!"





"Poteete, Jacquie A." 
Sent by: histonet-bounces@lists.utsouthwestern.edu
11/05/2004 12:06 PM

 
        To:     "'Joe Nocito'" , TERRI BRAUD , 
histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu
        cc: 
        Subject:        RE: [Histonet] Dumbing down the practical???


WASTE high snow!  What a horrible experience!

Jacquie Poteete MT(ASCP)QIHC
Lead Technologist, IHC Lab
Saint Francis Hospital
Tulsa, OK

> -----Original Message-----
> From:          Joe Nocito [SMTP:JNocito@Pathreflab.com]
> Sent:          Friday, November 05, 2004 11:10 AM
> To:            TERRI BRAUD; histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu
> Subject:               RE: [Histonet] Dumbing down the practical???
> 
> I can do one better.
> Two techs came through my lab during a clinical rotation. They were so
> good
> that I hired them. Both took their practical at the same time using the
> same
> tissue from the same autopsy, used the same processor, microtome and
> stainer. I reviewed all their slides as did my medical director. One
> passed,
> one didn't. When I called ASCP to inquire how this could happen, I was
> told
> it would be $100 to have the slides reviewed. I told this person that I
> was
> the supervisor, not the applicant and I wanted to know how this could
> happen.
>                I put my name in to become a reviewer, but never received 
a yes or
> no.
> Do I have some issues with ASCP, you bet. When my techs told me that 
they
> had to turn in only 9 slides, I was appalled. So I told the same old 
story
> "When I went to school, I had to walk 5 miles in waste high snow. When I
> did
> my HT, I had to use paraffin molds, process by hand and use a steel
> knife."
> Their response was "was that before cell phones and play stations?" They
> remember seeing a picture of a steel knife in a book once. Geez, am I
> getting old or what?
> 
> Joe "The Toe" Nocito, BS, HT(ASCP) QIHC
> Histology Manager
> Pathology Reference Lab
> San Antonio, TX
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: histonet-bounces@lists.utsouthwestern.edu
> [mailto:histonet-bounces@lists.utsouthwestern.edu]On Behalf Of TERRI
> BRAUD
> Sent: Thursday, November 04, 2004 3:52 PM
> To: histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu
> Subject: [Histonet] Dumbing down the practical???
> 
> 
> I have a question for all those on the list who have taken the HT
> practical.
>   Why do you think that the practical exam does not cover the material
> that
> it used to?  Having taken mine in 1981, and then, later as a supervisor,
> having trained 8 OJT's to sucessful completion of their certification, I
> have observed that the practical is not near the test that it used to 
be.
> There is no CNS tissue, no decalcified tissue, no submission of both a
> special stain and a H&E from the same block. Just one slide, one block,
> one
> stain.  Also how is the effect of fully automated special stainers vs
> prepared kits vs "homemade" solutions being taken into account?  There
> isn't
> even an informational question pertaining to this so that the ASCP could
> begin to see the impact of the technology in our HT learning process?
> Will
> the technician that can successfully load an autostainer be as effective
> in
> troubleshooting a stain as one who has learned every step by hand? Will 
it
> even be necessary in the future of Histology?  Just curious to hear some
> opinions - Terri
> 
> 
> 
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