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Re: Pap interpretation From: art fougner, md (evsono@pipeline.com) Wed May 8 12:09:30 2002 Messages sorted by: [ date ][ thread ][ subject ][ author ] Next message: art fougner, md: "GEN: NPO after midnight?" Previous message: Dr. John Provatopoulos B.Sc. M.D.C.M. F.R.S.C.: "Re: Epidural" In reply to: ainsron@msn.com: "Re: Pap interpretation" Next in thread: Dr. John Provatopoulos B.Sc. M.D.C.M. F.R.S.C.: "Re: Pap interpretation" Reply: Dr. John Provatopoulos B.Sc. M.D.C.M. F.R.S.C.: "Re: Pap interpretation" except the incidence of invasive breast cancer is considerably higher than that of invasive cervical cancer. art At Wed, 8 May 2002, ainsron@msn.com wrote: > >Think about the mammogram reports you get; they have very similar >language. The pathologists are taking a page out of the radiologist's >book. I think the main reason revolves around liability concerns, i.e. >if the pathologist doesn't recommend that something be done, it isn't >done and as a result the patient develops advanced cancer, . . . See >you in court. > >>I need an opinion from all my esteemed colleagues here on the List. Am >>I being too old fashioned or starchy by feeling that it is wrong for a >>Pathologist who interprets a pap smear as AGUS, to include a comment in >>his "Final Diagnosis" section stating: >> >>"Colposcopy and biopsy and thorough endocervical sampling is recommended >>as clinically indicated." >> >>Now I am not talking about whether or not the content of the >>recommendation is appropriate (that is another debate). I am simply >>objecting to a Pathologist asserting his/her opinion into something that >>should be the judgement of the gynecologist. Isn't the Pathologist's >>job to interpret and report the pathology results and our job to assess >>the results and decide the appropriate plan from that point. >> >>Lynn > >-- >Ronald E. Ainsworth, MD > -- art fougner, md ich bin ein New Yorker Next message: art fougner, md: "GEN: NPO after midnight?" Previous message: Dr. John Provatopoulos B.Sc. M.D.C.M. F.R.S.C.: "Re: Epidural" In reply to: ainsron@msn.com: "Re: Pap interpretation" Next in thread: Dr. John Provatopoulos B.Sc. M.D.C.M. F.R.S.C.: "Re: Pap interpretation" Reply: Dr. John Provatopoulos B.Sc. M.D.C.M. F.R.S.C.: "Re: Pap interpretation"

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