From: | "Weems, Joyce" |
I know – I’m concerned that may happen here with HIPAA– but we’ll
educate as long as we can!
Joyce Weems
Pathology
Manager
Saint Joseph’s
Hospital of Atlanta
404-851-7376
404-851-7831 -
fax
-----Original
Message-----
From: Andrew Shand
[mailto:Andrew.Shand@north-bristol.swest.nhs.uk]
Sent: Thursday, October 24, 2002
11:30 AM
To: Histonet (E-mail)
Subject: RE: The future of
Histotechs
If you worked in the UK
Joyce you would find it impossible to do that. Our response to the Alder
Hay scandal has been to produce an environment in which, though we can host the
plastinated body exhibition, none of us would contemplate such educational
activities - even if we had full consent, permission forms pasted all over
our tired little bodies.
Andy Shand
-----Original Message-----
From: Weems, Joyce
[mailto:JWEEMS@sjha.org]
Sent: 24 October 2002 15:11
To: HISTONET@pathology.swmed.edu
Subject: RE: The future of
Histotechs
We have a collection of specimens that we loan to
health care professionals to show in schools in the area. The response is
amazing. Our employees and physicians use them often for their children’s
science/health class. We have slices of lungs - normal, emphysema, and cancer, a heart-lung combo with an
embolus, several hearts – bypass, normal, valves, etc. liver – normal and alcoholic, kidneys,
and a brain that are the most popular ones. We talk about smoking, too much
alcohol, not eating properly, etc. When I do this (I have been requested a
couple of times) I talk about
Histology – taking along a poster board showing the process of handling a
gallbladder – and then show a collection of stones.
I will now request that we all talk about this
profession – sent the ASCP powerpoint program to a doc just now!
One of the most amazing things is that we have a
heart transplant patient who does this. He requested the specimens at the
suggestion of one of the nurses a couple years after I started working here. We
got to know each other and became friends. He had a life changing spiritual
experience shortly before he received his new heart, in fact a death
experience, and has become a spiritual and educational mentor for many young people.
When I came here we had hearts everywhere – and I got the bright idea to find
his. Our pathologist allowed me to give it to him. He not only speaks at
schools, but at churches. When he brings out his very own heart, everyone is
touched and amazed. (I tell him he is the only one I know who truly has his
heart in his hand!)
Joyce Weems
Pathology Manager
Saint Joseph’s Hospital of Atlanta
404-851-7376
404-851-7831 - fax