Re: opinions, please
From: Andrew Folley (agfolley@hotmail.com)
Mon May 14 18:28:12 2007
Agree with Steve on this. Send both tubes together. Sending separatgely
results in two separate charges.
>From: "Raymond Stephen" <stephen.raymond@dhhs.tas.gov.au>
>Reply-To: ob-gyn-l@obgyn.net
>To: Multiple recipients of list OB-GYN-L <ob-gyn-l@dns.obgyn.net>
>Subject: RE: opinions, please
>Date: Mon, 14 May 2007 18:12:23 -0500
>
>It has always mystified me why people mark the tube segments or send
>them separately to the lab. What difference is it going to make if one
>of the segments is not tube in the final analysis? You are still going
>to have to go back and deal with the missed one and I can't imagine that
>it is not going to be obvious when you get there which one needs
>attention. The tubes have been together all the years prior to the
>surgery, so why separate them?
>
>Steve
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: ob-gyn-l@obgyn.net [mailto:ob-gyn-l@obgyn.net] On Behalf Of Dr
>Eberhard Lisse
>Sent: Sunday, 13 May 2007 4:31 PM
>To: Multiple recipients of list OB-GYN-L
>Subject: Re: opinions, please
>
>why does one do the histology in the first place? To prove it is
>done. To the patient (and her lawyers) as much as to the Medical Aid
>funds.
>
>It depends a little on which hospital I operate in that day, but
>usually the operating theatre staff send one container only, because I
>mark the right specimen. One of the Pathologists was an intern of
>mine many years ago, the other one I have been sending these specimens
>to for over 15 years, so they know: "one specimen, marked with a
>suture, presumed to be the right tube, will be examined as tissue
>block II". On the few occasions where they only received one
>specimen, they always immediately phoned me, and started a major
>search, which was successful each time, unless I wrote on the form:
>"previous salpingectomy noted, only one, the right/left specimen sent"
>and they then comment on this in the report. (I still mark the right
>one even if it is the only one :-)-O)
>
>el
>
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