A terrific story and well told, too.
Trisha



On Tue, 6 Oct 1998, connie mcmanus wrote:

> ROTFL!!!  This is tooo funny.  Gorss (no pun intended... well maybe), but
> funny.  I'm going to have this one framed and hung up in our tissue cutting
> room!!  Thanks for this one!
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> Connie M.
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> >The recent recollections of how patient specimens go missing remind me
> >of my earlier (I'm not that old) days at another hospital, when our
> >prosectionist was attempting to bisect a referred-in, formalin-fixed punch
> >biopsy of skin.  As you all know, fixed tissues are somewhat rubbery.  In
> >order to describe the specimen more adequately, she brought her head
> >closer towards the bench and proceeded to speak at the same time as
> >her scalpel blade touched the biopsy.  B-O-I-N-G!!!!!  She tiddlely-winked
> >that piece of skin into her mouth, gag-reflexed, and swallowed it whole.
> >The final report only stated "specimen lost in processing".
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