I didn't notice the time factor in the first post.  WOW, that is cutting it
short and exposing the personnel to a number of unknowns with a new
procedure.  I wouldn't want the responsibility for the personnel under these
conditions, much less the results.  Pam Marcum

-----Original Message-----
From: mike king [mailto:making@nersp.nerdc.ufl.edu]
Sent: Monday, October 09, 2000 9:19 AM
To: HistoNet Server
Subject: Re: Daily Digest


At 12:00 AM 10/08/2000 -0500, you wrote:
>Date: 7 Oct 2000 04:00:20 -0500
>From: "Buttigieg Carmen at MOH" <carmen.a.buttigieg@magnet.mt>
>Subject: Microwave fixation Help!
>
>Please help
>We have a request for Frozen Section on a Hep C positive patient. The
>operation
>is removal of parathyroid, ...I need a protocol very urgently, all this
will take place on Tuesday!
>Thanks in advance
>
>Carmen

If this isn't scary medicine I don't know what is--your MDs would actually
adopt an untried new protocol they found on the internet the day before an
actual surgical procedure?  Please tell us where this 'medical' facility is
so we can avoid it like the plague!